“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.” WritingCharacterGuyGirlCommunityBoysNovelNiceGrewGrew UpMy FriendsExpectedExceptionBad GuysMy BoyfriendGood GirlGood Boy Author:Stephenie Meyer
“I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.” TryingTwoGuyCoursesBrotherGrewGrew UpBeatsGolfCompetingAlways TryingGolf CourseOlder Brother Author:Mike Weir
“Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.” KnowsMenKindCountryKidsGuyListeningGrewGrew UpPopsCrossingsCrossing OverR Kelly Author:Austin Mahone
“It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.” WorldImportantBigsGuyNiceGrewGrew UpBeing Nice Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.” RunningKidsGuyRaceTreeGrewGrew UpBlockClimbingBarefootRunning RaceClimbing Trees Author:Edie Falco
“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.” KnowsKindBigsSchoolFacesGuyLevelsGrowing UpGrowingCollegeGrewHigherGrew UpTownsLeagueMinorsSmall TownHigher LevelSchool Districts Author:Roy Oswalt
“I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!” MeanRealHardUsedGuyStarsNiceGrewGrew UpJust BeingMovie StarNice Guy Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.” KnowsHas BeensCountryGuyFightingRightsDyingMilitaryGrewExerciseGrew UpVoteSoldierOther CountriesRight To Vote Author:Robert Griffin III
“I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.” ThinkingWayTryingGuyGamesWinningIndividualFunEnvironmentGrewApproachGrew UpReflectionWhatever It TakesStagingFun Loving Author:Dave Parker
“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.” KnowsWantTryingLittlesGuyFunBitsLinesGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpEvolveDragFinish LineOlder Guys Author:Mike D'Antoni
“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.” ThinkingWorldYearsDifferentDreamBigsAbleTogetherGuyEasyGoalRealizingSimpleBreakFivePlansGrewProudBandMembersGrew UpBig ThingsDreams And GoalsBand MembersSimple Plan Author:Chuck Comeau
“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.” ThinkingKnowsKindGuyNiceBrotherGrewDadOffersGrew UpMy DadGet UpSeatsBusPoliteCourtesyNice ThingsOld LadyCourteousYounger Brother Author:Paul McCartney
“Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.” ThinkingCountryGuyActorsSexSeriousGrewGrew UpExpectationsTownsVariousJulietHaving Sex Author:Michael Ian Black
“Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.” KnowsFeelsGuyListeningGrewGrew UpMusicianIncredibles Author:Action Bronson
“Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.” Has BeensJoyGuySportsWatchesPlayerTeamGrewGrew UpStructureObviousSports TeamTeam PlayerBeside You Author:James Preston Rogers
“We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.” LittlesMadeHardWholeInspirationActionFilmGuyDiesFoundNamesTermFansStupidHugeGrewLateGrew UpWeaponsOriginalsSeriesMade ItErasOur Love80sAction MovieSolomonSchwarzeneggerForteRamboLethal WeaponMacgyver Author:Will Forte
“Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.” PeopleCountryDoneRealityKidsTogetherGuyHateCausesBlackWhiteOne ThingListeningGrewGrew UpHip HopEnormousLike MeHipsHopsBlack PeopleExposedFrighteningMtvCamaraderie Author:Michael Rapaport
“My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called a Congregationalist. Later on in life, he just became a non-denominational preacher, kind of a fire and brimstone type guy. That's how I grew up.” KindGuyFireGrewTypeDadGrew UpMy DadPreacherCongregation Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.” CharacterJobsGuyActorsSportsFansGrewGrew UpBaseballStrikesReliefGolfersPitcherParticipantsAnalogiesCharacter ActorsAvid Author:Clint Howard
“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.” MenChildrenGuyPresidentGrewHeroDegreesAuthorityGrew UpMy FavoriteJournalismSkepticismDoseMy HeroWatergate Author:Chris Carter
“I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.” GuySportsCommunityDarkActingGrewNormalGrew UpTheater Author:Willem Dafoe
“Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.” PeopleWantDoeHelpingUseGuyGrewHeroSkillsGrew UpPicksGunShameHelping OthersReluctantAnti HeroSergio Leone Author:Antoine Fuqua
“I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them.” KnowsKindLittlesStillsTwoWholeGuyRealizingBrotherGrewGrew UpBeatsLet MeHumbleWhole LifeThat GuyUnderdogOlder BrotherLittle Brother Author:A. J. Hawk
“I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!” KnowsGuyForceStudyAirGrewGayGrew UpTwentiesDancingSouthGearsAir ForceGay Guy Author:Morgan Freeman
“I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.” SchoolGuyCarGrewDadGrew UpMy DadTeenagerGradesClosestMotorcycleGrades In SchoolClosest Friends Author:Aisha Tyler
“The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.” MenWellsDoeMadeYoungGuyNamesFineGrewGrew UpYoung ManFrankHandsomeArmstrongStardomJeter Author:George Steinbrenner
“I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.” KindUsedGuyBoysBrotherGrewGrew UpTreated Author:Katee Sackhoff
“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.” KnowsKidsGuyGroupsCollegeGrewDadRepublicanGrew UpLaborHorseDemocraticDemocratMy DadJewLawyerImmigrantsBubblesHippieHardworking Author:David Mamet
“Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese.” GuyTurnsCrazyGrewGrew UpTownsInsaneLegendsCheeseSmall TownAcidAcid Trip Author:Brian Posehn
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard
“To me, my Dad's the greatest guy - next to Jesus Christ - who ever walked this planet. He's been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he's still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, 'Wouldn't do anything behind your back that I wouldn't do to your face.'” StillsFacesGuyNextJesusChristBehindsRolesPlanetsGrewDadGrew UpModelsConsciousJesus ChristMalesMy DadYour FaceRole ModelsOutstandingBehind Your BackMale Role Models Author:Aaron Tippin
“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot DÃaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.” PeopleKnowsWritingLittlesBookStoriesBigsSeemsSchoolGuyCommunityDealsGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodGraduatesThis GuyBig DealStandpointEpiphanyGraduate SchoolBlowing Up Author:Matt de la Pena
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan
“Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.” GuyBlackTeamGrewGrew Up Author:JD Era
“I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.” MenActionGuyGrewGrew Up80sSlySchwarzenegger80s And 90s Author:Katee Sackhoff
“The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.” YearsGuyGenerationsMovementCollegeGrewEqualGrew UpFeministSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersFeminist MovementStand Up For YourselfCollege Years Author:Bonnie Raitt
“People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.” PeopleUsedGuyTermGrewComfortableGrew UpMalesShirtsClothingsDungarees Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.” ArtUsedGuyParentWaterClassGrewDrinkGrew UpCornersShipsBoatArtisticWorking ClassSuburbsPubsSydneyBohemianPosh Author:Rose Byrne
“I grew up in a Cleveland suburb called Parma, Ohio. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with a typeface called Bodoni. It turns out that Giambattista Bodoni had his foundry in Parma, Italy. So I pick Bodoni because us guys from Parma have to stick together.” WayTogetherGuyTurnsGrewGrew UpPicksSticksSuburbsOhioClevelandTypefaces Author:Michael Bierut
“For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.” GuyOpportunityNationsPresidentStreetsGrewGrew UpWestVicesParksServingVice PresidentHometownHumblingBoyhoodCreeks Author:Mike Pence
“Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.” PeopleKnowsStillsKidsGuyOpportunityFeltDangerGrewDrugGrew UpResponsibleAccessErasThis DayCracks Author:Mahershala Ali
“It's great to see part of my culture doing so well in the sport that I'm involved in, a sport that I have a passion for. I grew up hearing about a lot of Argentine fighters, the great Carlos Monzon and even the fighters on ESPN lime Omar Vaez; and now guys like Marcos Maidana and Sergio Martinez.” WellsGuyCulturePassionSportsGrewInvolvedGrew UpHearingFighterMarcosLimesEspnOmar Author:Chris Algieri
“I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.” KnowsWantWarGuySupportImagineListeningGrewColdTrumpGrew UpErasZeroCold War Author:Julian Castro
“I think I've had my taste.I got to work with Sam [L.Jackson]. I can say I did it. I had my shot. I'd love to do something with [Robert] De Niro or Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino. Those are guys I grew up watching. That would be wonderful. Now that I've gotten a taste working with a bona fide movie star, I think I'd be more prepared to go head to head with some of the big boys.” ThinkingI CanBigsWould BeGuyStarsBoysWonderfulGrewTasteGrew UpShotsPreparedAlsMovie StarDe Niro Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.” KnowsYoungUsedGuyParentGrewGrew UpMeetingsInsanityTake MeAggressiveAggressionAa Meeting Author:Shia LaBeouf
“In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.” WellsGuyGrewGrew UpCousinFirefighterMy Cousin Author:Denis Leary
“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.” CountryGuyKnowingGrewGrew UpChinaOur CountryCommunistBad GuysCommunist China Author:Ang Lee
“I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.” SelfGuyGrowsGrowing UpSelf EsteemGrewGrew UpSouthCampaignsEsteemTortureNew Orleans Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.” MenGuyEnvironmentBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherMasculine Author:Alanis Morissette