My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. – George J. Mitchell
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. – Ed Bradley
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. – Grace Jones
Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I’m pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers. – Marshawn Lynch
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren’t many people like me on the big screen. – Daniel Wu
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. – Noam Chomsky
I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can’t really take credit for it, though – all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up! – Michelle Monaghan
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music.’ – Ellie Kemper
When you’re growing up, you realize you’ve got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders. – Nadia Comaneci
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. – Patrick Swayze
My favorite actor was, is, Michael Keaton. Certainly growing up, in the movie ‘Night Shift’ he did something brand new that I hadn’t seen before that we all steal from now. And then it was in 1987 he did the movie ‘Clean and Sober’ and ‘Beetlejuice’ in the same year, and that was when I said, ‘Wow, that’s what I want to do.’ – Matthew Perry
I’ve known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I’m not from a background of flamboyant believers. It’s much more a personal issue. – Michael Shannon
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real. – Megan Follows
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up. – Mark Morris
I’ve learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. – Mark Hoppus
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority. – Mallory Jansen
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. – Magnus Magnusson
I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I’d heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader. – Peter Dinklage
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn’t really connect with me then. – Nathaniel Rateliff
And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point. – Michael Bay
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner
I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up. – Mary Whitehouse
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that’s probably more appropriate. – Macaulay Culkin
