I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

Growing up, we played sports nonstop. I mean every single day. As soon I got done with breakfast, I was ready to go.

Growing up in a small community where everybody knows everybody, it was a lot of fun. Great friends, great memories.

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

Me and Mustard the same age, and when we was growing up, he was DJing all the parties, and I was at all the parties.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

We did not have a toaster growing up. I never knew what a toaster was, it was only as I got older, we got a toaster.

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

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