I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling…

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

— Jackie Stewart

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

— Max Verstappen

I think Stirling Moss represents everything that a racing driver should be and first of all, it's passion.

— Kevin Magnussen

When I said I wanted to get back racing my dream was to be an F1 driver. I didn't know how realistic that was…

— Billy Monger

Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don't have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There's no…

— Susie Wolff

I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as…

— Joanna Coles

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“If beards flowed like rivers, then I’d stop shaving my facial St. John’s, and I’d have one of the few major beards in the…

— Jarod Kintz

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

— Ken Jeong

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

— Peyton Reed

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't…

— Gina McKee

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that…

— Dave Eggers

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her…

— Michael Smith

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days…

— Ridley Scott