I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
