Growing Up Quotes

• When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

  

  Aaron Dontez Yates
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • Open

• When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Running
  • Exercise
  • Police

• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

  

  John Bradshaw
  • Growing Up
  • Task
  • Adult

• I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Believe
  • Growing Up

• We certainly had our moments when I was growing up. But the great thing was, if Mom was working on a night shoot, she'd be up making breakfast before school.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • School
  • Night
  • Growing Up

• I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

  

  Stephen Schwartz
  • Important
  • Art
  • Growing Up

• Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Inspiration
  • Growing Up
  • Comic Book

• I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Wealthy
  • My Love
  • Drugstore

• I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved 'One In A Million.' That was my jam.

  

  Alexandra Shipp
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • Fan

• I think actually it's kind of sad because something I looked forward to just getting to the NFL growing up was just being able to have more fun, the rules loosen up, being able to celebrate.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Rules
  • Celebrate
  • NFL

• When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

  

  Estelle
  • Growing Up
  • Hip Hop

• When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • War
  • Parents
  • Teachers

• 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.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movie
  • Confidence
  • Mission

• Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

  

  Susana Martinez
  • Imagine
  • Growing Up
  • Governor

• It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma Watson, I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Interesting
  • Journey
  • Advice

• I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

  

  Stephen Mangan
  • Dad
  • Actors
  • Builder

• In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Pleasure

• We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Find
  • Growing Up

• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Kids
  • American
  • Foreign Policy

• 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.

  

  Josh Hutcherson
  • Change
  • Acting
  • Growing Up

• After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Movies
  • Imagine

• Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Growing Up
  • Drums
  • Introduction

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