Grew Up Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

  George Clooney

  Dad, Dating, Television

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• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  Olivia Munn

  Girl, Military, School

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

  Jon Lovitz

  Father, Nice, Struggle

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

  River Phoenix

  Way, Innocence, Projects

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

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• I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

  Michael Biehn

  Arizona, Grew, Buddy

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• I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Order, Tennessee, Louis Vuitton

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

  Jeremy London

  Baseball, Giving, Trying

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• I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

  John Tesh

  Parent, Musician, Radio

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• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  Steve Kanaly

  Television, Roger, Film

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• My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

  Joan Van Ark

  Brother, House, Mark

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• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  Natasha Richardson

  Childhood, Feelings, World

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• The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it just kind of happened. I blame it all on my mom who was still dancing on stage with me when she was however many months pregnant. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

  Ksenia Solo

  Mom, Dad, Funny Things

  "Exclusive! ‘Black Swan’ Star Ksenia Solo Talks Nat Portman — and Chanel!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. November 30, 2010.

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• At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

  Morgan Brittany

  Growing Up, Children, Teenager

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• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  Gary Cole

  Fear, Real, Apocalypse

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• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

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• I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

  John Lone

  Mother, Insecure, Thinking

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• I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Couple, Blow, Years

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  Navid Negahban

  War, Impact, Iran

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