Grew up Quotes · Page 49

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

— Mike Myers

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War.…

— Billy Campbell

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be…

— Ron Luciano

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the…

— Cecelia Ahern

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

I've always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They're really fun.

— Zac Efron

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up…

— Tea Leoni

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We…

— Herb Brooks

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized…

— Coco Lee

I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are…

— George Clooney

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on…

— Aaron Peirsol

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived…

— Keith Johnstone

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something…

— Michael Bond

Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing…

— Shannon Hale

I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion]…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions…

— Nneka

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players…

— Boots Riley

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part…

— Susan Stroman

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

— Gabe Polsky

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

— Colin Hanks

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our…

— Steve Wozniak

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular…

— Lisa Kleypas

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid…

— Garrison Keillor

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard…

— Tom Ford

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else…

— Michael Sheen

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

— Janice Kaplan

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

— Lee Pace

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but…

— Ashley Scott

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up…

— Brian Tee

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

— Jessica Lynch

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

— Michael K. Williams

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained…

— Mireille Guiliano

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

— Philip Larkin

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life…

— Drake Bell

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

— Albert Camus

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

— Noah Baumbach

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up…

— Eric McCormack

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our…

— Laura Allen