“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.” YearsFirstsLittlesKidsBitsSportsGrowing UpFiveGrowingLittle BitAthleteTraditionalBeachRacingFreshmanSurferSkateboardingSophomoreSkateboarderSophomore YearBmxHuntington Beach Author:Jason Lee
“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.” ThinkingWayLittlesDifferentKidsAbleWishGrowsBitsMy OwnGrowing UpOne ThingMysteryBirthLittle BitDifferent WaysFarmsExposure Author:Rachel McAdams
“I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.” LittlesBitsGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitLengthViolinSkirts Author:Denise Van Outen
“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.” ThinkingWorldKindLittlesImportantKidsPastGrowsBitsGrowing UpLittle BitImportant ThingsTeenagerDiscoveringLittle KidShrinksDiscovering The World Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.” PeopleDifferentHappensBitsGrowing UpGrowingSucceedToolsIncrediblesPrivilegeRussiaThings HappenRealisingLooking BackMake Things HappenDifferent Life Author:Natalia Vodianova
“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.” PeopleCountryAbleBitsTalkingSituationGrowing UpGrowingMeetingsDeveloped Country Author:Bill Gates
“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.” LittlesPersonsLightSpiritNightHouseBitsDarkWalksRoomsDarknessGrowing UpGrowingDoorsTaughtLittle BitCracked Author:Tony Dorsett
“I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.” WayWantBitsGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFansPerformancesScareGetting OldGetting OlderOver The Top Author:Demi Lovato
“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.” ThinkingMeanLittlesPlayRunningKidsBitsSidesGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitDressesGirlyBarbieKids Growing Up Author:Adrianne Palicki
“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.” ThinkingWantShouldChildrenUseFatherNamesWishStarsGrowsBitsStepsGrowing UpFieldsShadowMy ChildrenMovie StarDowners Author:Shahrukh Khan
“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.” NeedsWritingHardWould BeBitsEmotionGrowing UpGrowingAdviceSpares Author:Joanna Trollope
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.” WorldGivingLittlesRealProblemSeemsKidsFilmCertainCultureSpeakSocialGrowsBitsGrowing UpThis WorldDiversityLittle BitDistanceGenreHeritageSuperheroReal Problems Author:Djimon Hounsou
“Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPlayKidsSchoolBitsParentMy OwnActingSecretGrowing UpComedyGrowingFiguresMarriedLittle BitPursueTheatrical Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.” ThinkingMenLittlesPlayCharacterBitsInterestingRolesGrowing UpGrowingBecomingTasteLittle BitActiveThese DaysPersonal LifeContemplativeMaturedBecoming A ManCharacter Change Author:Josh Hartnett
“Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.” MindLittlesWantedNamesBitsGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitSticksWho I AmRepresentativesNicknames Author:Hoodie Allen