Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Andre

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Lee Brice

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.

We did well and I'm happy with the kids. I think we grew a lot this tournament.

Kelly Olynyk

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

Laura Osnes

Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

Marlon Wayans

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.

Oliver Hudson

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Samuel L. Jackson

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Avan Jogia

I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.

Bernie Mac

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

Becki Newton

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

Terry Farrell

I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore.

Timothy Simons

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff.

Jack White

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

As of late, 'Boyz n the Hood' really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first time I saw a true reflection of me, my neighborhood and my surroundings.

Amanda Fuller

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

Bruno Mars

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Cathleen Schine

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

Craig T. Nelson

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

Lloyd Banks

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

Nile Rodgers

I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

Nat Faxon

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

Luke Pasqualino

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.

Christopher Atkins

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

Ellen Greene

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

Ellen Greene

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Damien Chazelle

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Susan Griffin

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

Trent Reznor

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.