“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.” ThinkingStillsI CanKidsAgeCertainLeftGrowsCitiesGrowing UpAliveChicagoRealised Author:Chance the Rapper
“When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.” IfsCertainRolesGrowing UpGrowingPatterns Author:Morgan Freeman
“To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.” IfsKnowsSaidStillsDreamCertainWonderGrowing UpGrowingSingersYour DreamsThis DayClosestGagaClosest Friends Author:Lady Gaga
“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.” ThinkingFeelsKindSelfCertainGrowing UpComedyGrowingCynicismIndianaHoosiers Author:Jim Gaffigan
“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.” MindCharacterLawGuyCertainOrderSidesGrowing UpGrowingFeetTypeHeroSpringCinemaCampsIrelandBad GuysLaw And OrderMcqueen Author:Liam Neeson
“I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.” WayCertainGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodWorstStuckLimitationWorking It Author:Corey Taylor
“You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.” WritingFilmCertainGrowsGrowing UpLettersExtraordinaryFilmmakerAdmiringLove Letter Author:Simon Pegg
“I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.” WantTryingLooksKindI CanPlayAbleCertainGrowsRolesGrowing UpPositionStrategy Author:Tom Welling
“I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.” LittlesKidsCertainGrowing UpGrowingAgreeWho I AmUnfortunateBeing A Kid Author:Selena Gomez
“I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.” KnowsKindPlayCertainOpportunityActingRolesKnow HowGrowing UpSawsComedyGrowingComedian Author:Steve Buscemi
“I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.” IfsKnowsCertainCoursesLostGrowing UpGrowingTaughtGrewGrew UpSurvivalWoodsCanadaWildernessLost In The Woods Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
“Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.” ShouldKindCertainValuesCultureGrowsProcessCommonGrowing UpTasteTolerateSubculturePersonal Taste Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“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 overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.” PeopleWantCertainGrowsGrowing UpPeriodsEvolveNecksNooses Author:Billy Corgan
“Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is perfect except for god." And I always knew that; I just wanted my victories to be flawless. I didn't want to get hit at all. I wasn't gonna make any mistakes. And that's the problem with me growing up and being around a trainer that wants his fighter to be perfect.” PeopleWantWellsSaidImportantProblemWantedMotherCertainPerfectMistakeGrowing UpGrowingVictoryFighterTrainersFlawless Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.” IfsThinkingWayCertainDifficultGrowing UpGrowingMomExpectationsScaredMy MomDifficult Things Author:Milla Jovovich
“Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.” ThinkingAgeCertainGrowsGrowing UpGrownups Author:Keith Richards
“We were young. We were 23. I was a kid, growing up, that would burn and fry. I didn't understand why. We did all this study and research and learned so much about skin cells and rejuvenation and how the body works and (how) everybody is different. (We) learned what doctors do for treatment of certain things and so I changed my direction and opened up a skin-care company - healthy tanning, skin-care products and rejuvenation and all of that and it took off.” DifferentBodyCareKidsYoungCertainCompanyGrowing UpStudyGrowingChangedProductsHealthyResearchDoctorsSkinsCellsTreatmentKids Growing UpSkin CareRejuvenationTanningBody Work Author:Drew Waters
“Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.” HeartLittlesCertainGrowsBitsLevelsGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitDistanceMaturityMaturity Level Author:Brendan Fehr
“As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.” ThinkingStillsWantedRememberCertainCreativeGrowing UpComedyGrowingNew YorkComing OutBe CreativeOrangeCountyAlways ThinkingOrange County Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.” WayWellsPersonsCertainGrowing UpGrowingOne ThingChangedLike Me Author:Agyness Deyn
“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.” PeopleKindCertainInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsOne ThingBecomingAdultsInteresting ThingsOur GenerationBecoming An Adult Author:Paul McCartney
“There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.” HeartLongCharacterHelpingGuyCertainGrowing UpWiseGrowingTypeContactIslandsSense Of HumorMixturesBrooklynLong IslandMoxieWise Guy Author:Steve Buscemi
“When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.” CareWantedYoungCertainStarsGrowsGrowing UpMovie Star Author:Sharon Stone
“I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.” ThinkingWayKindStillsCertainGirlGrowsBitsGrowing UpLoudRudeNaughty Author:Courtney Barnett
“There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.” CertainFallGirlGrowsLinesGrowing UpExpectationsBehave Author:Lizzy Caplan
“Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.” IfsWayLittlesPersonsI CanCertainGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyPressureDancingArtisticLanes Author:Jillian Hervey
“I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.” KnowsWayYearsKindPersonsMadeCertainParentBlackWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionProudHeyJournalistBlack Person Author:Ed Gordon