Grew Quotes

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

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

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.