Growing Quotes

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

My dad was so much fun growing up.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

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.'

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

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.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

People grow up by living.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.