Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn’t occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. – Maya Lin
I definitely know that I’m quirky. I know that I’m different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up. – Jayma Mays
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. – John Strachan
My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn. – Jacoby Jones
Sometimes it feels like I’ve been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name. – Josh Turner
I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up. – Mary J. Blige
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I’m sure of it. – Kathleen Battle
I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. – Kurt Fuller
I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square. – Jerry Leiber
I didn’t really watch ‘Dallas’ growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports. – Jesse Metcalfe
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. – Lionel Hampton
I didn’t read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan’ and that kind of stuff. – Jesse L. Martin
I was addicted to the original ‘Star Trek’ when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren’t allowed to watch a lot of TV. – Katee Sackhoff
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer’s eve. – Kat Edmonson
When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system. – Lacey Chabert
Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting. – Joyce DeWitt
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn’t nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. – Michael J. Fox
I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy. – Lee Byung-hun
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks. – Jennifer Hale
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. – Michael Caine
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. – Kate Forsyth
I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name’s ‘Jorma.’ I didn’t watch much television growing up because they weren’t into it at all. – Jorma Taccone
