Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
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.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'
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.
