Growing up Quotes · Page 55

Growing up, I played more centrally, which is why, whenever I do get asked to play there, I'm more than happy to…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is…

— Lindsay Davenport

Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.

— Paige Spiranac

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

“Jess is too big for her skin, as if she might float away in the exhilarating possibility of the moment.”

— C.B. Lee

Growing up my brother showed me a lot of Cohen brothers movies, I guess that's where I get my dark humor from.

— Charles Forsman

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

— Mackenzie Davis

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I…

— Chris McCaughan

For me as a kid growing up, I was gay and I didn't even realise it, let alone accept it. I was…

— Darren Hayes

“Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend…

— Katie McGarry

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of…

— Dana Goodyear

Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers…

— Jean Kennedy Smith

I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and…

— Taron Egerton

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from…

— Sally Ride

I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some…

— Idara Victor

“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an…

— John August

I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and…

— Malcolm Goodwin

“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it…

— Richard Dawkins

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks…

— Kenneth Lonergan

Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that…

— Patti Smith

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's…

— Leslie Mann

My style influences came from just growing up in L.A. and watching everything and the whole environment and just traveling.

— Nick Young

I remain patient because my mom taught me growing up to be grateful for everything.

— Zion Williamson

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

— Renee Olstead

I'm going to make my own 'Trapped In The Closet' one day, about a black kid growing up in the hood.

— Goldlink

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to…

— J. C. Chandor

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

— Jon Heder

My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

— Brian Grazer

Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.

— Leslie Jordan

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

— Aaron Neville

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

— Michelle Rodriguez

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

— Barry Hannah

Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up…

— Dan Savage

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go…

— Donovan Mitchell

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

— Nikki Giovanni

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

— John Waters