“I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me and that's ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it's time to move on - it's time to evolve as well and I think that should be inspirational to other people. They shouldn't feel stifled and feel like oh we can't grow up, we can't move on - change is a good thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldWellsMovingGrowsGrowing UpGood ThingsInspiredEvolveGirlfriendMy GirlfriendBe InspiredTime To Move On Author:Adrienne Bailon
“Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started.” PeopleMadeWholeWantedArtistDiesGrowing UpGrowingTvsTypeConflictLimitsWestInspiredChicagoCampsCrucialCashWayneJuvenileMarieCash Money Author:King Louie
“I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.” Has BeensArtTwoCultureGrowsGrowing UpModernPaintingTvsGrewGrew UpExcitedFarmsTextbooksArt HistoryModern ArtHistory Textbooks Author:Neil Farber
“I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.” TogetherParentGrowing UpGrowingBuiltPartnersSailboat Author:Rex Smith
“Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.” KindGrowsBornGrowing UpFocusMinesHealthyRaisedBorn And Raised Author:Jeffrey Wright
“I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.” ThinkingParentGrowing UpGrowingCarListeningEssentialsMusic IsSittingListening To Music Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.” DreamSchoolParentGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulBenefitsAspiration Author:Jason Graves
“I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.” YoungGrowsGrowing UpGroupsBedPoliceOur FamilyEncountersOfficersBrooklynPolice Officer Author:Tracy Morgan
“My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.” DreamFatherBoysGrowing UpGrowingRegretAreasRadioLocalsPenaltiesInactionAlbany Author:Jonathan Weeks
“My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.” KnowsKindMadeUseFacesCultureStrongGrowsGrowing UpViolenceChildhoodWestEastViolentWho I AmIndianNeighborhoodYour FaceItalianDiverse80sAmerican CultureBrooklynGreat TimesColorfulCaribbeanIndian CultureItalian CultureJewish CultureTime To Grow Up Author:Michael K. Williams
“I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.” ThinkingGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyJudaismWoodySuburbia Author:Charlie Kaufman
“My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.” WritingGrowing UpGrowingCrazyConsistentlyCollages Author:Michael Giacchino
“I was a cheerleader growing up, so I can relate to that!” I CanGrowing UpGrowingRelateCheerleader Author:Kelly Stables
“Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.” AbleWhiteGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHonorMy FavoriteTalesSnowFairyFairy TaleSnow White Author:Lily Collins
“You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.” ThinkingMomentsMotherGrowsGrowing UpWorstThat MomentWorst Fear Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.” LittlesFeltActingGrowing UpGrowingActressesDancerMeant To BeWere Meant To Be Author:Summer Glau
“I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.” Growing UpTeacherGrowingTvsMomSittingBallsMy MomBackgroundsAfternoonGymnasticsBackyardsWatching Tv Author:Gal Gadot
“Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.” FirstsParentRolesGrowing UpGrowingModelsRole ModelsLooking Back Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsWarHomeBlackRolesGrowing UpDemocracyGrowingMovementVictoryChineseWar Of The WorldsBlack PeopleWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.” AgeGrowsLevelsGrowing UpFiveGrewGrew UpRacing Author:Justin Allgaier
“When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.” WantMatterGrowsRaceGrowing UpRacing Author:Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
“It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.” PeopleWantShowsTurnsEasyCitiesGrowing UpGrowingAreasInner City Author:Tinchy Stryder
“You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.” GrowsGrowing UpGrewFellowsAlsCopGangstersCrooksJeopardyCapone Author:Jack Kirby
“Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top.” NeedsPlayGamesAnswersGrowing UpGrowingAirTeamBallsGolfClubsGet BetterRelatedBuckets Author:George Lopez
“I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.” WantChildrenTwoKidsAbleGrowsEnjoyMy OwnLove IsWatchesGrowing UpCartoonFabulousAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Amy Poehler
“I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.” ShouldDreamDesireCoursesActingGrowing UpGrowingProudUniversityAverageRememberedBe ProudMediocreBeing MeYaleYale University Author:Angela Bassett
“We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each other to stay grounded, grow together and for comfort. Our memories growing up are what built our foundation. I think we are proof to never give up. None of us are perfect, and we're okay with making fun of our flaws.” ThinkingGivingBigsTogetherFacesFunGrowsChallengesMemoriesPerfectGrowing UpGrowingReadyComfortGiving UpBuiltOkayFoundationObstaclesProofFlawsGroundedNever Giving UpOur Memories Author:Christina Milian
“When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.” WayBigsGrowing UpGrowingIncludingStigma Author:Wayne Dyer
“When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.” PeopleThinkingChildrenHas BeensNightPoorClassGrowing UpRichGrowingPlansGenerationsOur ChildrenPlanningSaturdayPoor PeopleRich PeopleSaturday NightLower ClassPlanning Ahead Author:Gloria Steinem
“I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.” MenFeelsWellsKindBeliefBoysGrowing UpGrowingHe ManGrewGrew UpIntelligentVery GoodAtheistLovelyPriestsLoyalAltarsGood RelationshipMan Of GodKind Man Author:Chris O'Dowd
“I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.” WantI CanTwoMatterKidsWantedUsedCoursesStarsGrowsGrowing UpGreaterImagineDaughterDecidedRaisesActressesObsessionEmsLos AngelesThickElsewhereDescentSuperficialityMovie MakingSensationalism Author:Woody Harrelson
“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.” WantWellsRealityActorsParentCareersFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansSittingScream Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“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
“Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.” WorldMeanBookFactsKidsReadingNextWaitingMemoriesPartyGrowing UpGrowingStoresSellingAccomplishedReading BooksHarry PotterMidnightPottersCapsStraws Author:Chris Colfer
“When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."” WantWritingWellsSaidPlayWantedActorsParentGrowing UpGrowing Author:Jonah Hill
“Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything was a question. "Dad, is there a heaven? Is there a hell?" You never could get an answer. That informed a lot of my reasons for getting into Scientology, because they had all the answers. They said I was not my body, not my mind. I don't have a soul; I am an immortal soul. I've lived many lives and I'll live endlessly into the future, and as an immortal soul I have no gender.” MindSaidSoulReasonBodyHeavenAnswersHellGrowing UpGrowingDadJewGenderImmortalSecularThey SaidJudaismScientologyImmortal Soul Author:Kate Bornstein
“I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.” WantHelpingSchoolNextGrowsAudienceGrowing UpHigh SchoolMusicalHopefullyLife ExperiencePhasesLiving My LifeHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.” SometimesChoicesGrowsRealizingPovertyGrowing UpEducationalNeighborhoodEducational System Author:Keke Palmer
“Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett...and Diane Keaton - she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.” ThinkingLooksDreamActorsRolesGrowing UpGrowingGeniusComplexesLook UpKateJuliaHepburnAudreyVery Inspiring Author:Katie Holmes
“The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.” PeopleFilmYoungGrowing UpGrowingImpactIdols Author:Hugh Hefner
“When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.” IfsThinkingLooksMaySelfProblemYoungGirlGrowsCausesGrowing UpIssuesGrowingSelf EsteemHealthyIdealsGratefulWho You AreEsteemUnfortunateYoung WomenSkinnyFlawlessSelf Esteem Issues Author:Kellee Stewart
“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
“My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.” NamesAnimalGrowing UpGrowingEatingGrandmotherFarmsMy Grandmother Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.” DifferentSchoolGrowing UpGrowingClassicNerdArchetype Author:Andy Biersack
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.” Growing UpGrowingIslandsMassachusettsNantucket Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.” TryingEndsUseDarkResultsGrowing UpGrowingEdgesComicSanityEnd ResultsDysfunctional FamilyHonolulu Author:Kirby Wright
“As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.” FirstsI CanPlayCareUsedGrowsGrowing UpCuttingGrewGrew UpLowsNbaFlipAnklesBack In The DaySandalsFlip Flops Author:Rajon Rondo
“For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.” FeelingsWinningGrowing UpGrowingOne DaySpotsChampionshipBeltsJordan Author:Mario Chalmers