I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. – Allison Janney
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n’ roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. – Alex Winston
Well, I don’t know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. – Carol Burnett
Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General’s Award wasn’t something I even thought to wish for. – Alexi Zentner
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic. – Chris Van Allsburg
Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. – Cameron Diaz
I’ve always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They’re always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don’t see them that way. – Amy Heckerling
I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Back then they didn’t even know what dyslexia was. – Caitlyn Jenner
Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had ‘Time Out’ on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon. – Bradley Wiggins
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn’t realise it. English pop ruled the world in the ’80s! – CeeLo Green
I loved Disney. ‘Fantasia’ was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved ‘Bambi.’ I loved ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Lady and the Tramp’ and ‘Snow White’ and even ‘Mary Poppins’ which wasn’t even fully animated – it was just a little bit animated. They were such a part of my growing up years; I was just very connected to them. – Anika Noni Rose
Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It’s easy for five guys to defend one guy. It’s hard to guard five. It’s just a natural thing to do. – Ben Simmons
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. – Beth Ditto
I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. – Alice Hoffman
Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn’t always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. – Chris Evans
Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do ‘Home and Away’ or ‘Neighbours,’ because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor. – Brenton Thwaites
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. – Barbara Broccoli
When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, ‘I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.’ And it worked. – Afrojack
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. – Craig Charles
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it’s okay to be a regular person and be really into food. – Dana Goodyear
My parents didn’t take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up – we went to see ‘Francie and Josie’ once every five years. – Peter Capaldi
My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined. – Colin Morgan
