One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
I grew up in Minnesota.
You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'
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