I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages. – Zubin Mehta
There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade. – Taylor Hicks
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol. – Wolfgang Tillmans
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched ‘Superman II’ 8000 times. – Stephen Amell
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship. – T. J. Perkins
I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, ‘Well you’re never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don’t even try.’ I mean, I care about being pretty, but it’s not my most valued thing. – Zooey Deschanel
Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn’t feel like a freak. – Val McDermid
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up. – Steven Strait
I didn’t know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn’t know any arty types. – Stephen Mangan
Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She’s the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up. – Tyler Perry
I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy. – Tom Hardy
Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes. – Zach Johnson
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn’t quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. – William Shatner
I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do ’til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world. – Sasha Alexander
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. – Tracy Chapman
Back when I was growing up, it was like, ‘You’re too young to know what you want. We’re telling you what you want. It doesn’t matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.’ – Wendi McLendon-Covey
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course. – Tammy Blanchard
When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that. – Scott Aukerman
Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it’s all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed. – Sidse Babett Knudsen
Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear. – Shannon Miller
Kids in Alaska don’t know they’re growing up on the Last Frontier. It’s just what they see on the license plates, and it’s something tourists like to say a lot because they’ve never been around so many mountains and moose before. – Tom Bodett
I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny – I just never put it to use. – Spoken Reasons
I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day. – Will Estes
I was a big wrestling fan growing up. That was my thing. I had the action figures and the magazines and everything like that. – Stephen Amell
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn’t. – Stephen Sondheim
The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people. – Thomas Mars
It’s weird because I’ve grown up a lot after filming the first ‘Hunger Games’ movie. Growing up with a character is really interesting because you feel like you have this connection with the role. – Willow Shields
