When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England. – Peter Falk
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day. – Dave Grohl
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. – Eddie Murphy
Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. – Daniella Monet
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. – D. J. Cotrona
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up – and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out. – Elaine Pagels
I’ve always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. – Meg Wolitzer
It’s funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own. – Dhani Harrison
I think I’ve always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was ‘your’ boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get ‘you.’ – Mohsin Hamid
I’ve become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that’s a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements. – Martin Henderson
Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the ‘Friday the 13th’ movies had quite an influence on me growing up. – Drew Goddard
Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the ‘whites only’ and segregated schools. – Elijah Kelley
In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people. – Ed O’Neill
I feel like that’s so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point. – Ellar Coltrane
I think that when something happens when you’re growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren’t as straightforward. – Felicity Jones
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as ‘Little Vietnam’ because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders – as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden. – Natasha Trethewey
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don’t think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up. – Dan Auerbach
I’m a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends. – Michael Steger
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book ‘Jane Eyre’ by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. – Meg Cabot
Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn’t know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff. – Michael Carbonaro
I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular. – Elle Varner
When I was growing up in Nigeria – and I shouldn’t say Nigeria, because that’s too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I’m from – there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that’s essentially what it is. – Chris Abani
