You always hear these stories of people who grew up in…

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

— Dorothy Richardson

If, during childhood, you were fortunate to have a parent who drilled into you, 'You can be anything you want to be if you…

— Mark Goulston

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly…

— Tori Spelling

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends…

— Spencer Johnson

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets.…

— Robin Thicke

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly,…

— Cody Horn

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

— Juliette Lewis

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

— Tony Goldwyn

“Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips: maybe it was the voice of…

— Pablo Neruda

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

— David Elkind

“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from…

— Garry Kasparov