“Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.” IfsMeanSometimesKidsWantedFunDealsGrowing UpGrowingBecomingFameFrustratingPaparazziBecoming Famous Author:Victoria Beckham
“I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but for the guys too. I want to show everybody that I didn't grow up in the spotlight like the Mickey Mouse Club to make it. That is important for kids to know.” PeopleKnowsWantImportantShowsKidsGuyGirlGrowsRolesGrowing UpInspireModelsClubsRole ModelsMiceSpotlightMickeyGood Role Models Author:Tonya Mitchell
“My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.” WantKidsGrowsGrowing UpFootballGaelic Author:Shane Filan
“Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.” PeopleKidsParentBornGrowing UpGrowingFineUpsetWiring Author:Patton Oswalt
“When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.” KnowsLittlesKidsParentTeachGrowing UpGrowingDisciplineLittle KidKids Growing Up Author:Robert Knepper
“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.” ThinkingRealityKidsYoungRaceGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMixed Race Author:Matt de la Pena
“I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.” IfsLittlesHappensKidsAbleAbilityWonderGrowing UpGrowingKids Growing Up Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.” KidsGuySongGrowsSimpleGrowing UpShareInspiredVicesVice VersaFamily Guy Author:Five for Fighting
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.” FeelsKidsCitiesGrowing UpGrowingEffectsNew YorkGrewGrew UpNegativeSouthInternationalPopsAffectedNew York CityExposedSouth AfricaPop MusicConnotationSubcultureAfrican Music Author:St. Lucia
“Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.” WorldWantSelfKidsOrderGrowsDecisionAnimalBrainGrowing UpDegreesFairsKicksWildernessRapidsCliffsDaydreamingAlaskaSelf ReliantBeing Pretty Author:Leigh Newman
“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.” ThinkingSeemsKidsGrowing UpGrowingChaosInevitablePermanentSurroundings Author:Leigh Newman
“I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.” KidsWantedChoicesGrowing UpGrowingGroupsBandOutsidersCranberries Author:Dawn Angelique
“The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingSmellSpeedAgentsGasBikeLiquid Author:Rachel Kushner
“After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.” ThinkingWritingLooksHardMomentsKidsAgeEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingSittingEmbraceComing Of AgeEnjoying The Moment Author:Sean Mackin
“I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.” KnowsWantGivingFeelsHeartChildrenDifferentHardKidsActorsGrowsKnow HowGoneGrowing UpGrowingMy HeartAnd LoveMeetingsCaughtProfessionSpotsEnjoyedDifferent ThingsSensitivityCaught UpWrong ThingsWatsonEmmaChild Actors Author:Ethan Hawke
“I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.” IfsI CanHardKidsActorsGrowsParentDifficultTalkingGrowing UpLuckyFakePhenomenalGreat Actors Author:Eric Lange
“I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want their kids to go to School 6; it was that bad. But it was where we lived. If you grow up in a bad area, there are bad things around it.” IfsWantKidsSchoolGrowsCitiesGrowing UpWorstAreasBad ThingsPublic School Author:Fetty Wap
“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.” KindHomeKidsWantedGoalWhiteGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsBrokenListeningAreasHip HopHipsHopsOaklandBroken Homes Author:Moshe Kasher
“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.” ThinkingWellsDifferentKidsGrowsGrowing UpWifeShapesExcitingGrandkids Author:Guy Branum
“There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.” BookCountryStatesKidsCultureGrowing UpGrowingImmigrantsOther Cultures Author:Mitali Perkins
“If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.” IfsWantHomeKidsFatherChallengesGrowing UpGrowingIdentity Author:Benjamin Watson
“I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanMightWould BeKidsGrowing UpGrowingImagineGayBe YouImagine ThatKids Growing Up Author:Rib Hillis
“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentPlayKidsChurchGrowing UpGrowingFiguresListeningGrewWorshipGrew UpJazzGuitarBackgroundsPlentyOddDifferent ThingsUniquenessNerdAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Michael Gungor
“I want to be the best role model I can be for my family. I want my husband and I to be the ones our kids look to for guidance, to be the great role models that I had with my parents growing up, so for as hard as we work, I want our kids to see us having fun. I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.” KnowsWantFeelsLooksI CanHardBodyKidsFunParentRolesGrowing UpGrowingHugeHusbandModelsMy FamilyHaving FunGuidanceBeing The BestMy HusbandRole ModelsNutritionGreat Role Models Author:Kerri Walsh
“They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.” BookKidsAmericaRememberBitsClassGrowing UpFocusGrowingSlaverySectionsCurriculumHistory BooksHistory Class Author:Aldis Hodge
“When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.” WritingKindKidsActionUsedFunDarkGrowing UpNiceGrowingRainSci FiFlashDepressingBeing Nice80sDystopianBucksRogerSerialsKids Growing UpBustersBuck RogersFlash Gordon Author:Mark Millar
“Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.” WellsHas BeensKidsFilmStuffGrowing UpGrowingFrontsStudentsLuckyCamerasPressesProductionsExtrasAssistantsExaggeratedFilm Set Author:Nicole Holofcener
“There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.” IfsKindDifferentFactsKidsSchoolLastsSexBlackLevelsGrowing UpGrowingYouthRemainsFatsWorriedDifferent LevelsFat Kid Author:John Amaechi
“I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.” FirstsKidsLastsNamesGrowing UpGrowingObnoxious Author:Paul Reubens
“I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.” LooksKidsUsedStrongGrowing UpGrowingBrokenTallVery StrongUnclesLook At MeCongoBananas Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.” MeanKidsSchoolChristianCausesReligiousMorningGrowing UpStudyGrowingGrewGrew UpBritishImmigrantsSundayIronicChapelSunday MorningKids Growing UpReligious StudiesIronic Things Author:Aasif Mandvi
“When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.” HelpingProblemKidsGrowsCreativeGrowing UpRiskChildhoodFoundationBraveStriveRationalRemoveAdulthoodEmpoweredProblem Solvers Author:Gever Tulley
“As a kid growing up, the most simple things would make me so, so excited. I remember the first time my dad got a let-out couch; you could sleep in it like a bed and my sister and I just thought that was so magical.” FirstsKidsRememberSleepSimpleGrowing UpGrowingDadBedFirst TimeMy DadExcitedMy SisterCouchesSimple ThingsKids Growing Up Author:Keke Palmer
“My foray into the wrestling world is well documented in that I have stated many a time that I am not the kid that grows up and aspires to put wrestling trunks and wrestling boots on and get in the ring and flies around to entertain people.” PeopleWorldWellsKidsGrowsGrowing UpRingsWrestlingBootsAspireTrunks Author:Bill Goldberg
“That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.” ThinkingWellsLittlesPlayBigsKidsFormDarkNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTypeBandProjectsMarkGuitarMy FavoriteBarsOddAttractiveArrangementsSectionsBig QuestionsUnconventionalQuestion MarkFavorite Bands Author:Charlie Clouser
“As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.” ThinkingKindLittlesSometimesMightKidsBitsGrowing UpGrowingMomLittle BitWaveBe KindControversialIntimidatingKids Growing UpSpeaking Up Author:Susan Wojcicki
“The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.” FirstsStillsKidsWishGrowsStepsGrowing UpTaxesOvercomingCookingObstaclesHardestAnxiousFirst StepsAdulthoodGroceriesPaying Rent Author:Dillon Lane
“I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.” StillsKidsWishGrowsGrowing UpAnxious Author:Dillon Lane
“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.” WorldWantFirstsHumansKindWarKidsLevelsTalkingGrowing UpGreaterGrowingSeaHugeCivilizationTasteResourcesStressCrisisPopulationTranslateRefugeeDroughtKids Growing UpRefugee CrisisHuman CivilizationSyrian RefugeesSea Level RiseResource Depletion Author:James Cameron
“Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.” FeelsKidsJobsBeautifulParentPoorGrowing UpGrowing Author:Mila Kunis
“I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.” ThinkingFeelsMadeSeemsKidsRememberTechnologyGrowing UpPiecesGrowingRight NowYeahComplicatedGrandparent80sIpadsKids Growing UpBeing A KidComplicated Life Author:Dan Mangan
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all” IfsWayFeelingsWould BeKidsSchoolFilmPurposeCultureGrowsWonderGrowing UpGreaterGrowingSeeingGenerationsMediaMastersProjectsWho I AmMy SisterOutsidersFuture GenerationFilm SchoolGreater Purpose Author:Meera Menon
“I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.” FeelsChildrenStoriesShowsKidsWantedNaturalGrowing UpGrowingCollegeTvsHeroMovedPreparedTv ShowsStorytellerProgressionOnly Child Author:Joe Robert Cole
“I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.” IfsWantHappensKidsYoungGirlNamesFunGrowsClassBoysWatchesGrowing UpKnowingCollegeFolksFeministGenderEngagingBoy And Girl Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.” MadeRealFactsStoriesKidsActorsVoiceBehindsGrowing UpGrowingSeeingExpressionCamerasConnectedFilmmakerLos AngelesPresenting Author:Curtis Hanson
“These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.” ThinkingKidsSocialGrowing UpGrowingMediaSocial MediaSavvy Author:John Stamos
“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsStillsMomentsKidsAgeTalkingGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHugeRight NowComing Of AgeWatergateKids Growing UpBackdropLooming Author:Patterson Hood