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Growing Up Quotes

Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

– Jason Mitchell

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues – the blues background was my big inspiration.

– Jackie DeShannon

Kids aren’t growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

– Kevin Spacey

I’m very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it’s more – I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really – it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

– Katey Sagal

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

– Liza Minnelli

Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.

– Josh Pais

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘The Secret Garden,’ the ‘Rosemary’ books, and Kipling’s ‘Just So’ Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn’t read historical fiction. It didn’t exist where I was growing up in China.

– Jean Fritz

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that’s small and you don’t fit into.

– John Corey Whaley

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I’ve been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards – the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It’s not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

– Jaquelin T. Robertson

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

– Lev Grossman

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have – if you could afford them.

– Luke Evans

Before ‘Austenland,’ I got do a lead role in ‘Northanger Abbey’, which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can’t really ignore Jane Austen. It’s always been there.

– JJ Feild

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

– Kathryn Lasky

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman – a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don’t hear about the Walkman anymore.

– Kevin Rollins

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you’re really quite dependent on books.

– John Rhys-Davies

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

– Jeremy Renner

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

– Julia Jones

When I was growing up, I wasn’t taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

– Jeremy Renner

I’ve done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

– Kelly Osbourne

When you’re a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that’s what it’s all about.

– Joe Morgan

When I was growing up, Mandela’s name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn’t see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

– Kenneth Bonert

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

– Mike Krzyzewski

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning a major championship.

– Jeev Milkha Singh

For me, it’s about being comfortable… but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on stage. Growing up as a dancer, that’s how I’m comfortable in my body. It’s about where you grew up and those things; it’s a way of communicating your spirit to the world.

– Jillian Hervey

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

– Lance Reddick

I loved scary movies growing up.

– Katie Featherston

I don’t think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

– Mandy Moore

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession – and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

– Les Wexner

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn’t worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

– James Langevin

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

– John Slattery

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