“I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise.” PeopleThinkingDoneStoriesWantedGrewGrew UpSequels Author:Kurt Russell
“People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.” PeopleKindCountryStuffCitiesEnvironmentComedyNew YorkGrewGoes OnGrew UpGladObsessedLos AngelesNew York CityWeirdo Author:Ed Helms
“Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensStillsDifferentWholeResultsListeningGrewGrew UpMovedWhole LifeAffected Author:Danger Mouse
“I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoneRealizingResponsibilityHappenedGrewTerribleGrew UpAbuseResponsibleBlindJustifyHolocaustPalestinianIncapableHarshTaking ResponsibilityTerrible ThingsThings Done Author:Eytan Fox
“The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.” PeopleWayHelpingEnergyTaughtGrewGrew UpAppreciateRaisedHumbleGroundedMagnanimity Author:Lenny Kravitz
“There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.” PeopleWorldTalkingClassProductsGrewGrew UpWorking ClassLensesHarvardUpbringingElitismPeople TalkingPrinceton Author:Barack Obama
“I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.” PeopleKnowsWantLooksSidesCommunityClassClearGrewGrew UpMiracleInvestmentSouthChicagoWorking ClassLook At MeMiraculousPublic Education Author:Michelle Obama
“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.” PeopleCountryArtistListeningGrewHealthySceneGrew UpStonesEnglandWestBobRollingCaptainsDylanRolling StonesNinaHowlin WolfCaptain Beefheart Author:PJ Harvey
“I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.” PeopleNextFunGrowsGrowing UpSeaKeysGrewTypeGrew UpLowsSouthOpen MindedSociableLow Key Author:Nicki Minaj
“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."” PeopleKnowsHomeAnimalNumbersGreaterLandDangerousGrewGrew UpAdvantageTownsMilesWildernessRepresentationAttackingAcresWild AnimalMinnesotaUnsafeDepiction Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.” PeopleFatherGrewGrew UpMusicianMake Me HappyMaking People Happy Author:Ingrid Michaelson
“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.” PeopleThinkingMenRealFatherAttitudePlayerFieldsGrewMajorsGrew UpStandardsMen And WomenBaseballReal LifeLeagueBaseball PlayerDouble StandardMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Katie Uhlaender
“The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.” PeopleAttitudeCrimeChangedGrewGrew UpGunNot AfraidFirearms Author:Antonin Scalia
“I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.” PeopleLittlesMissingBrotherGrewTenGrew UpBrilliantIntenseMy BrotherSarcasticThroatBrothers And SistersClearingAppendixVery Sarcastic Author:Mary Robison
“I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.” PeopleWorldWellsAmericaOpportunityPresidentNumbersGrewGrew UpTownsWesternFactoriesSteelPollsPennsylvaniaPittsburgh Author:Rick Santorum
“I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.” PeopleChildrenClassTeacherMiddleGrewGrew UpMiddle ClassLibrarianTreasured Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“I grew up watching Lindsay and it made me want to do what she does. Just the whole vibe. Being there, being on camera, or on stage, with everybody listening to you it's so cool when people look up to you. I've already been asked for my autograph and it's just a really good feeling to have.” PeopleWantLooksDoeMadeWholeFeelingsStageListeningGrewGrew UpCamerasLook UpUp To YouBeing ThereAutographsGood Feeling Author:Ali Lohan
“I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsDoorsGrewMetsLuckyGrew UpSouthCaliforniaSantaAffluentBarbaraSanta Barbara Author:Floyd Norman
“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.” PeopleKnowsWorldMomentsCitiesGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingNew YorkGrewGrew UpConnectionsCorporateNew York CityInvolvingSpursCorporate WorldToo Much WorkSpur Of The Moment Author:Luc Sante
“I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.” PeopleWantGivingEndsHardAgeYoungEnergyAcceptingGrewGrew UpLowsAreasNegativeIncomeNeighborhoodRoughYoung AgeHard LifeLow IncomeNegative Energy Author:LaMarcus Aldridge
“When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.” PeopleI CanRememberYoungCommunityNumbersBoysSeeingArmsGrewGrew Up Author:Bernie Sanders
“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsSchoolStuffCommunityActingClassNew YorkCollegeGrewGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolTheaterFortunateReally GreatGreat People Author:Andrew Rannells
“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
“My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsChildrenActorsParentRoomsGrewGrew UpExcitingTheaterMirrorsCostumesDressingsBulbsDressing RoomsVery Romantic Author:Phoebe Fox
“Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.” PeopleCountryYoungReligiousLevelsMissingGrewGrew UpJewIsraelOrthodoxPotMeltingNew ExperiencesMelting PotNon Religious Author:Noma Bar
“I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.” PeopleTogetherClassMiddleGrewGrew UpCalmTensionMiddle ClassWorking ClassSuburbs Author:JR
“After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindSongJesusReligiousGrewGrew UpWheelsComing OutRelationship With GodOklahomaClose Relationship Author:Carrie Underwood
“I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.” PeopleKindViewsGrewGrew UpPoint Of ViewAll KindsManhattanLive And Let Live Author:Natasha Lyonne
“Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.” PeoplePlayBlackWatchesPlayerGrewDadPaperGrew UpMy DadPapersSmall Places Author:Ryan Giggs
“I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.” PeopleThinkingGrowing UpGrowingGrewDadGrew UpMy DadSense Of HumorJust BeingBrooksLear Author:Rob Reiner
“I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn't a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt.” PeopleKnowsFeelsYearsKidsStruggleGrewInternetGrew UpSorryConnectedLike MeFantasticTeensPrivilegedThrillHunts Author:Justin Broadrick
“At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.” PeopleMadeFilmStepsInspireGrewGrew UpHopefullyStep Up Author:Stephen Boss
“I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.” PeopleLittlesLastsMotherStarsBornRoomsMiddleRocksBabyGrewWalkingGrew UpRock N RollRock StarLiving RoomHendrixPromoters Author:Ari Up
“I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree” PeopleComedyGrewGrew UpAgreeDumbGradesSurvivedDyslexicGood Grades Author:Joel McHale
“If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsDifferentFilmStreetsGrewGrew UpFirst TimeArchitectureImpressionFilmmakerTemperAngleNew YorkersSidewalkCab Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.” PeopleGrowsGrowing UpGrewGrew UpHatedAdoreSuperstarAntichrist Author:Marilyn Manson
“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.” PeopleThinkingWritingPersonsDifferentCan DoCreativeStreetsGrewGrew UpDrawsAvenuesCreative PeopleSkatingSkater Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.” PeopleWorldActorsGrewIndustryGrew UpMy FriendsMy FamilyBiggerEntertainmentHelpfulAspireGeorgiaEntertainment Industry Author:Chris Lowell
“I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard and people are mean. And there's no president of England and I'm not British.” PeopleIfsMeanHardKidsWantedLife IsPresidentActingGrewGrew UpEnglandBritishLife Is Hard Author:Riley Keough
“If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.” PeopleIfsDifferentHappensJobsImagineGrewGrew UpGunBackgroundsShootingDifferent DirectionsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Todd Solondz
“You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindShowsActorsFunActingCasesGrewSceneGrew UpMarkBridgesTerrificCaliberBatman MovieRobert Downey Author:Clark Gregg
“Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.” PeopleLittlesEnoughWantedChoicesBornMistakeGrewGrew UpHungerFortunateHustleMy MistakesRight ChoicesMake The Right Choice Author:Curtis Jackson
“What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.” PeopleKnowsWantImportantGrewGrew UpSightErasVisibleMusclesStomach Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“I grew up doing theater, so I'm used to working with people where you can definitely ask another person a question or advice or say, "Hey, let's try it this way," or "What do you think if I did it this way?"” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingPersonsUsedAsksAdviceGrewGrew UpTheaterHey Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.” PeopleImaginationGrewGrew UpFamiliarBalletMeccaHonoluluHula Author:Joan Chen
“It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.” PeopleThinkingPayModernCarGrewClothesGrew UpValentineTributeModern Day Author:Todd Farmer
“I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.” PeopleShareGrewGrew UpContactSelectStressedProtestantsFundamentalist Author:Garrison Keillor
“I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.” PeopleHumanityWrittenMankindGrewGrew UpJokesCamerasRelateNervesFascinatedCandidCandid Camera Author:Howie Mandel
“I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.” PeopleThinkingHomeBigsWantedStuffCuttingGrewOfficeGrew UpMy FriendsAcquaintanceAtlantaProfanityCuss Words Author:Chris Tucker
“If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.” PeopleIfsWayReasonPoorComedyGrewNeededProjectsGrew UpUnderstoodEastLos Angeles Author:Carlos Mencia