I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up. – Kaniehtiio Horn
Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I’m from where I’m from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest. – Justin Vernon
I’m Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it’s half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I’m very much aware of their religion. – Liya Kebede
Growing up in Singapore, I wasn’t allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding. – Kevin Kwan
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. – Kobe Bryant
As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn’t see growing up in the Bay Area. – Mahershala Ali
For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like. – Lily James
I’ve never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs – I just never even processed it. – Krysten Ritter
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous. – Jennifer Saunders
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. – Kevin James
I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I’m on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I’ll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit. – Jason O’Mara
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts. – Linda Hunt
Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I’d find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new. – Lily Donaldson
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn’t, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys. – Karen Finerman
I’ve had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. – Kevin Corrigan
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it’s baffling. – Moby
For kids growing up now, there’s no difference watching ‘Avatar’ on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching ‘Game of Thrones’ on their computer. It’s all content. It’s just story. – Kevin Spacey
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up. – Linda Hunt
My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill – all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up. – Leah LaBelle
My favorite comic book growing up was ‘Thor.’ It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be ‘Thor.’ When my manager told me I booked ‘Thor,’ I literally didn’t know what to say. – Joseph Gatt
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. – Lindi Ortega
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set. – Keith Thibodeaux
Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don’t want to seem like the guy that ‘has to call his girlfriend.’ It’s just boys growing up. – Kristin Cavallari
Growing up I always shopped at Victoria’s Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. – Lindsay Ellingson
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. – Lenny Kravitz
