I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous. – Solange Knowles
Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor. – Susana Martinez
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I’m less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer. – Stark Sands
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it’s always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy. – T. J. Miller
Growing up, I’d just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. – Venus Williams
Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. – Tracy Morgan
I’m an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen. – Stephen Moyer
I’ve got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up. – Zayn Malik
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life – it changed the trajectory of my life. – Zadie Smith
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that’s all I ask. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
I’m a guitar player, really – I mean, first and foremost – I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it’s like first-love stuff; I’m always going to go back to it. – Todd Rundgren
My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the ’60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It’s part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up. – Will Yun Lee
When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn’t like, so I didn’t pay attention to them. – Trent Reznor
I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I’ve been using them throughout my career, but they’ve never taken center stage, they’ve never been really powerful, they’ve never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one. – Tess Gerritsen
I think from here on it’s up to me to prove that I’m growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I’ve had so far. – Shiri Appleby
Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling. – Wayne Rooney
I look up to Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. I’m a huge fan of their work. I also like actors who really transform themselves, like Joaquin Phoenix. And I loved Robin Williams growing up. He does comedy and drama so brilliantly. – Will Poulter
When I was growing up, I loved the films where you’d start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can’t imagine it being any other way. – Steven Price
When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. – Sally Kirkland
When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman. – Stanley Elkin
Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted, of what was normal. – Wentworth Miller
I’ve always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I’ve always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the ’40s and ’50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up. – Tabatha Coffey
