Being Quote by Barbie Ferreira

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

— George Pelecanos

In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men's fashion and…

— Danny Brown

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I…

— Christine Lakin

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles…

— Olivia Wilde

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge…

— Vic Reeves

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,'…

— Jane Fonda

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Brad Holland

My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all…

— Kellie Martin

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

— Kyle Mooney

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna