Grew Up Quotes - Page 7

• I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

  James McAvoy

  Hero, Fire, Play

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• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  Kate Bosworth

  Looks, Towns, Different

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• I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

  Rihanna

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Vicky Pryce and Isabel Oakeshott's horrible parody of female friendship" by Sarah Ditum, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one

  Mario Lopez

  Supportive, Problem, Household

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• It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

  Lee Pace

  Reading, College, Numbers

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• I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Hard Times, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, People, Germany

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• I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Grew

  "Julie Gonzalo Talks DALLAS, Working with the Original Cast, and Her Favorite Fights This Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, People, Pasta

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

  Armie Hammer

  Home, School, Islands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mother, Book, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

  Ashley Scott

  Missing, South Carolina, Different

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• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  Rachael Harris

  Ohio, Feelings, Towns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

  John Stamos

  Beach, Boys, Body

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• My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

  Loni Anderson

  Hands, My Sister, Syndromes

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• I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

  Guy Pearce

  Done, Would Be, Kind

  "Profile and Interview: Guy Pearce". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. June, 2003.

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• I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

  Connie Britton

  Mother, Teacher, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

  Sandra Oh

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. March 23, 2005.

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• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  Lily Collins

  Jobs, Knowing, Understanding

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Mom, Quirky

  "From Her Spice Girls Obsession To Her Signature Eyebrows, Get To Know Hollywood Darling Lily Collins!". Interview with Laren Brown, www.glamour.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

  Toni Collette

  Long, Sound, Doe

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• In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Mind, Would Be

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.7, Diversion Books

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• I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

  Connie Nielsen

  Inspirational, Funny, Light

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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