“Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.” PeopleEnoughGrowing UpGrowingIndustryEntertainmentGood EnoughNot Good EnoughEntertainment Industry Author:Renee Olstead
“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.” WayFilmFatherGrowsGrowing UpIndustryDirectorsFilm Industry Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.” WantedActingGrowing UpGrowingIndustryMovie Industry Author:Daniella Alonso
“Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'” WorldAbleActorsDealsGrowing UpGrowingLandIndustry Author:Lake Bell
“When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.” WantedFantasyGrowing UpGrowingIndustryMusicianMusic Industry Author:Matty Mullins
“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.” IfsWantNeedsJobsParentResponsibilitySupportGrowing UpGrowingIndustryFortunateBeing The BestDedicationRelentless Author:Danica Patrick
“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.” WantKindSaidShowsDreamWantedGrowsGrowing UpStageMinesIndustryMusicianDoctorsEntertainmentWhat You WantLawyerGradesRapperFadesSuperstarFade AwayEntertainment IndustryEighth Grade Author:Lilly Singh
“I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age” ThinkingDifferentHardAgeYoungGrowing UpGrowingIndustryObstaclesYoung AgeDifferent Times Author:Kirsten Dunst
“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.” PeopleYearsEyeSchoolFilmGrowsGrowing UpFrontsIndustryDirectorsSixAcceptedFranceFilmmakerInitiativeFilm School Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.” RememberEasyGrowing UpFocusGrowingProductsIndustryComputerStandardsHeavyHatedEmsIbmGreat SalesMainframe Author:Bill Gates
“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.” WantedSportsGrowing UpGrowingFashionIndustryAuntCommentatorsFashion Industry Author:Olivia Palermo
“It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."” GivingSaidOpportunityParentInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIndustryDenyFilmmakerAsianAsian American Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.” PeopleThinkingSometimesYoungGrowing UpGrowingImaginePersonalityIndustryObjectivesAnnoyingEntertainingPerfectionist Author:Keke Palmer
“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
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.” PeopleThinkingTryingUnderstandingSidesChallengesInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIdentityHugeIndustryTasteDiversityConnectionsMusicalConvinceTimingPeersParallelsMusic IndustryCircuitsMusical TasteEthnic Diversity Author:Miguel