Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manny Montana

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.

Matt Passmore

I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.

Pankaj Mishra

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.

Roman Coppola

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

James Spithill

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

I grew up watching them because I was like 30 minutes away from them. They didn't recruit me. I didn't really care. I'm kind of happy they didn't recruit me right now because I'm kind of happy I wound up at Arkansas.

M. Night Shyamalan

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

Cameron Monaghan

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

Joe Mande

I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing.

Andrew Bogut

I grew up watching him play on the Bulls. Between him and Michael Jordan I would've rather seen Toni score 30 points in a game.

Jonathan Tisch

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

Jeremy Shada

I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

Richard Flanagan

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Karen Russell

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

Jeff Lemire

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

Matisyahu

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

I grew up pretty anti-Catholic, to say the least. It's a radical journey.

I grew up on this lake. It's in my blood.

Joel Kinnaman

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Miles Teller

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Robert Wilson

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

I grew up in a town that has 10 meat markets.

Jesse Plemons

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Carol Bartz

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

Mary Meeker

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Philip Treacy

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

Don Lemon

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

I grew up as a receiver in this offense.

Mona Simpson

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

Ronda Rousey

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.