Grew up Quotes · Page 76

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

— Charlize Theron

Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still…

— Lorin Stein

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a…

— Anonymous

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

— Heather Matarazzo

I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for…

— Edwina Findley

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

— Jodie Foster

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've…

— Elle King

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

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 upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten…

— Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

— Cassandra Clare

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately…

— Andrew Solomon

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire…

— Emma Roberts

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

— Wayne Rooney

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm…

— Jim Cummings

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

— Chris Isaak

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the…

— Ashley Tisdale

I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of…

— Jimmy Cliff

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three…

— Bo Derek

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

— Michael Ondaatje

I grew up in Plano, Texas.

— Hunter Parrish

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane