I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up. – Charlotte Arnold
While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I’ve become an actress today, I still have those traits. – Esha Gupta
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly. – Gene Luen Yang
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. – Charlie Day
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. – Douglas Hurd
I watched a lot of old television growing up – a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched ‘Rhoda’, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’, and ‘I Love Lucy.’ Growing up, I loved ‘My So Called Life’ and was devastated when that went off the air. – Mamie Gummer
I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn’t easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments. – Emily Ratajkowski
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. – Francis Ford Coppola
This is going to sound really sad, but I didn’t really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. – Duncan Jones
When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said. – Peter Falk
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. – Michael P. Anderson
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. – Eric McCormack
Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn’t subscribe to what everyone else was wearing. – Chris Benz
Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends. – Candis Cayne
I’m so proud to be a Latina. Growing up and being Latina and growing up with my father and getting to do a lot of the Hispanic traditions, I loved it. – Nikki Bella
When I was growing up in the early ’70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special. – Dave Gahan
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me. – Diego Luna
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‘sexy,’ even before I knew what the word was. – Dolly Parton
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove. – Eddie Van Halen
The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, ‘If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.’ – Chandra Wilson
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up. – Megan Park
