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“I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.”

Mind Character Law Guy Certain Order Sides Growing Up Growing Feet Type Hero Spring Cinema Camps Ireland Bad Guys Law And Order Mcqueen

Author:Liam Neeson

“[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.”

People Men Long Done Stories Kids Used Lines White Forever Growing Up Cutting Growing He Man Long Time Jokes Yeah Majority Scary Used To Be Grass Long Time Ago Latino Grandkids Scary Stories

Author:George Lopez

“I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.”

Want Wells Book Enjoy Growing Up Growing Produce Direct Exciting Pressure Scripts Heavy

Author:Tom Cruise

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.”

Firsts Parent Growing Up Growing Fashion Style Importance Impression Atlanta First Impression

Author:Cam Newton

“Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.”

Made I Can Two Pain Religious Animal Growing Up Growing Blood Understood Cruelty Two Things Intolerance Animal Cruelty Religious Intolerance

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.”

Hard Helping Home Strong Poor Pay Growing Up Growing Mom Comfort One Day Comfortable Decided Bills My Mom Coming Home Supporter Complacency

Author:Farrah Gray

“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”

Way Trying Mind May Littles Hard Turns Grows Parent Cases Growing Up Bother Always Wrong Pests

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.”

People Knows Children Shows Kids Parent Growing Up Growing Havens Dad Married Dumb Be You Cartoon Cartoon Shows

Author:Matt Groening

“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

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Author:Mart Laar

“Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.”

Grows Growing Up Staying Singles Staying Single

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.”

Different Speak Grows Growing Up Growing College South Texas Heritage Tied Miami

Author:Eva Longoria

“All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”

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Author:Courteney Cox

“I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.”

Littles Use Girl Grows Levels Talking Growing Up Baby Dad Husband Sick Scary Technique Scare Manipulate So Sick Really Scary

Author:Megan Fox

“Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.”

Stuff Growing Up Growing Groups Listening Motown

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Hood Baptists Robins Robin Hood John The Baptist

Author:Bear Grylls

“Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.”

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Book:I Am the New Black

Source: I Am the New Black

“My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.”

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Book:I Am the New Black

Source: I Am the New Black

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

World Looks Mother Grows Lines Growing Up Emphasis

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.”

Jobs Fun Acting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Grateful Luxury Wonderful Things

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Don't tell girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't. It's like saying, 'Hey, when you get in the shower, I'm not gonna read your diary.' 'Wait--are you gonna read my diary?' 'No! I said I'm not gonna read your diary. Go take a shower!'”

Want Said Girl Grows Waiting Growing Up Hey Showers Diaries Tell A Girl

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.”

Grows Growing Up Eating Meat Vegetarian Eating Meat

Author:Daphne Oz

“I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.”

Feels Real Grows Growing Up Youth Grew Comfort Grew Up Comforting Potatoes Austria Comfort Food Mashed Potatoes Schnitzel

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.”

Children Growing Up Growing Boredom Suburbs

Author:Alia Shawkat

“I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.”

Two Growing Up Growing Mines Dancing Wounds Two Friends

Author:Lisa Ann Walter

“I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.”

Animal Growing Up Growing Garden Bunch Vegetables Rabbits Goats Vegetable Garden

Author:Kelli Williams

“Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?”

World Children Doe Two Growing Up Growing Adults Demon Trapped Save The World Prom

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.”

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Author:Carre Otis

“Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.”

Knows World Bigs Night Growing Up Growing Wonderful Television Sunday Wonderful World Sunday Night

Author:Scott Bakula

“Im Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.”

Grows Growing Up

Author:Margarita Levieva

“My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.”

Ideas Bigs House Half Growing Up Growing Dad Cooking My Dad Cooks Thai Family Time Dad Love

Author:Brenda Song

“Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?”

Knows Next Growing Up Growing Adventure Grew Grew Up West Hills Borders Lazy Rolling Virginia West Virginia Farmland Rolling Hills

Author:Hilarie Burton

“I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.”

Bigs Guy Growing Up Growing Dave

Author:Willie Geist

“Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.”

Grows Moral Growing Up Violence Fashion Fantastic Vain Assault Frivolous Semblance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.”

People Running America Growing Up Growing Middle Style Boots Cowboy Jeans Oklahoma Personal Style Cowboy Boot Middle America

Author:Suzy Amis

“If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.”

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Author:Julianne Nicholson

“I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.”

Knows I Can Culture Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Gamer

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.”

People Looks Mother Growing Up Growing Access Pretty Things

Author:Bette Midler

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

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Author:Michelle Monaghan

“When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.”

Made Important States Wanted United United States Growing Up Growing Court Lawyer Supreme African American Supreme Court

Author:Leah Ward Sears

“Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.”

Jobs Opportunity Growing Up Growing Smart Texas Job Opportunities

Author:Morgan Fairchild

“Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.”

People Stills Growing Up Growing Brother Clothes Gun Blue My Brother Dolls

Author:Natascha McElhone

“I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.”

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Author:Natascha McElhone

“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”

Kids Hate Grows Cities Behinds Growing Up Grew Grew Up I Hate Criminals Cop Highways Boston

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

World Trying I Can Past Artist Difficult Growing Up Growing This World Standing Who I Am

Author:Matt Bomer

“I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.”

People Thinking Way Want Art Kids Grows Creative Growing Up Inspire Boxes Our Future Thinker Be Creative Innovators Art And Music

Author:Angela Kinsey

“I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.”

Knows Problem Natural Growing Up Growing Style Hair Decided Phases Relaxed Natural Hair

Author:Kimberly Elise

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