Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you’re so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. – Ansel Elgort
I’d seen ‘Interview with A Vampire’ and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, ‘I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.’ – Alan Ball
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it. – Alice Englert
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things. – Art Alexakis
The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn’t do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I’d be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that’s why I paid more attention to them. – Billy Paul
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air. – Buzz Aldrin
I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight. – Anat Cohen
I’ve always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet. – Aerin Lauder
I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn’t something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess. – Amanda Schull
At home, growing up, we weren’t really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn’t have what we wanted. – Barbara Kingsolver
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter. – Aravind Adiga
I’ve raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I’ve observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth. – Chris Hadfield
Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it… my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason. – Calvin Harris
We weren’t poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn’t lavish – just a regular middle-class house. – Criss Angel
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don’t really see such stark lines between genres nowadays. – Beck
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying. – Chris Colfer
I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me. – America Ferrera
I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. – Andy Grove
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. – Beverly Cleary
Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, ‘I’m going to get a nose job one day’. I’m glad I didn’t. – Ashlee Simpson
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I’m asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. – Alexander Downer
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. – Bruce Springsteen
