Growing Up Quotes
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.
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We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
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Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.
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It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
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Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.
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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
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Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?
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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
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Growing up in wrestling - and I have been involved in wrestling, really, my entire life - I learned right from the get-go that you never forget your fans. They are the ones that put your food on the table and pay your bills.
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My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
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At nine years old I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.
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Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.
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We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.
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Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.
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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
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As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.
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I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool."
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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.
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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
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I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.
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I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a comedian role.
