Growing up in the entertainment industry, I’ve had a lot of people tell me I’m not good enough. – Renee Olstead
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you’re going to have years of failure. – Rob Zombie
I didn’t have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them. – Page McConnell
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn’t a goth or a social group sort of thing. – Romy Madley Croft
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life. – Sean Paul
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn’t want me to succeed and didn’t want the best for me. – Rachel Zoe
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time. – Rebecca Sugar
When I was growing up my favorite show was ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. – Ryan Murphy
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn’t about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. – Ron Wood
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn’t the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up. – Priscilla Presley
When I was growing up, the exam system didn’t allow you to write fiction, so you never did. – Roddy Doyle
The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn’t know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female… whatever. I’d hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level. – Robert Palmer
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don’t identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles. – Rachel Kushner
‘That’s So Raven’ was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel! – Raini Rodriguez
Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we’d listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other. – Ruthie Ann Miles
I couldn’t believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. – R. Kelly
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up. – Richard Elman
Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us – public, private, and secret. – Robert Fulghum
Working 14 hours a day until you’re 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. – Robert Harris
As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real. – Robbie Keane
I remember, growing up, if something big – God forbid – happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey. – Oscar Nunez
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don’t know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. – Ransom Riggs
I was a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan. I loved the ‘Twilight Zone’ growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama. – Seth MacFarlane
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives. – Rex Tillerson
I was the little kid growing up. I wasn’t picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies. – Robert Knepper
