Grew up Quotes · Page 35

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play,…

— Billie Jean King

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

— Richard Sammel

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew…

— Winona Ryder

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

— Randal Kleiser

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really…

— Ali Hewson

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description…

— Kevin Nealon

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick,…

— Annie Lennox

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to…

— Rakim

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of…

— Paul Allen

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach…

— Paul Engle

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look…

— Carmen Electra

Our kids grew up here [in the White House]. Some of our best friends have been made here in this place. There…

— Barack Obama

Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera].…

— Misty Copeland

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,…

— Elliott Abrams

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be…

— William T. Vollmann

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the…

— Jillian Hervey

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to…

— Robert Carlyle

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

— Phil Daniels

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

— John Kasich

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you…

— Bill Bryson

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays

— Beth Henley

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that…

— Allyson Felix

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of…

— Lily Tomlin

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

— Brad Paisley

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always…

— Paul Walker

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer…

— Alex Morgan

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being…

— Ziggy Marley

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

— Grimes

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way…

— Logan Lerman

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

— Wesley Snipes

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

— David Hasselhoff

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well,…

— Rulon Gardner

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to…

— Callum Keith Rennie

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around…

— Julianne Hough

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to…

— Jo Nesbo

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

— Robert Jordan

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

— Robert Stack