Growing Up Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Stephen Schwartz
  • Important
  • Art
  • Growing Up

• 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

• 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.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Sport
  • Softball
  • Olympian

• Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Parents
  • Respect
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Eric Reid
  • Believe
  • Growing Up

• Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

  

  Evan Goldberg
  • Movie
  • Growing Up
  • Canada

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Stephen Mangan
  • Dad
  • Actors
  • Builder

• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Magic
  • Growing Up
  • Fantasy

• 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.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Growing Up
  • Math
  • Class

• 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

• 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

• Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

  

  Nina Dobrev
  • Fun
  • Stop
  • Growing Up

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

  

  Susana Martinez
  • Imagine
  • Growing Up
  • Governor

• My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Growing Up
  • My Mother
  • Television Career

• 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

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