“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.” PeopleKnowsShowsKidsGrewDirectorsNormalGrew UpInsaneChicagoCastingShow BusinessManhattanCasting Directors Author:Matt Walsh
“The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsYearsHumansLooksPersonsHas BeensMadeMomentsHappensWantedJobsLastsBeautifulEnjoyCreativeHappenedThis WorldGrewGeniusNormalGrew UpHardestMade ItLast YearLive In The MomentRemindingFull Time JobsCreative Genius Author:America Ferrera
“I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.” ThinkingProblemGrewNormalGrew UpPhilippinesTyphoons Author:Manny Pacquiao
“I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.” GovernmentParentTechnologyGrewNormalGrew UpTownsRaisedCaliforniaCowboyPhysicistLaboratory Author:Cynthia Breazeal
“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.” PeopleKnowsTryingStillsWholeCareKidsTurnsGrowsProcessParentEffortGrowing UpGrewHealthySkillsNormalGrew UpToleranceDespiteAwfulHelpfulStrongestImperfectPsychotic Author:Frank Pittman
“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.” PeopleIfsFeelsSeemsCrazyGrewNormalGrew UpBehaveOutsidersWeirdo Author:Young Jean Lee
“I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.” StillsDifferentWould BeLife IsParentSweetGrewNormalMarriedGrew UpNormal Family Author:Gwen Stefani
“I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.” GuySportsCommunityDarkActingGrewNormalGrew UpTheater Author:Willem Dafoe
“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.” ShouldHas BeensWarBoysForeverGrewDadHealthyNormalMarriedGrew UpIdealsSouthMy DadMinistersPrairieDakotaMethodistsSouth Dakota Author:George McGovern
“The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.” StillsGirlGrewNormalGrew UpAdultsDrivingCall MePregnantAmy Author:Amy Schumer
“I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.” IfsFeelsTryingEnoughCitiesGrewNormalGrew UpPressureParksTargetMuseumsFree Time Author:Lisa Loeb
“The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.” PeopleWorldWayLooksMayHas BeensInspirationViewsGrewNormalGrew UpRegardCleverNonsenseProceduresSatiricalSilliness Author:Jasper Fforde
“Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.” IfsKnowsWayWantI CanKidsGrewNormalGrew UpToughAdvantageAcceptedGuidanceAnother WayWay To LiveParentalPlaces I've BeenParental Guidance Author:Christian Hosoi
“I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.” WritingKindFictionCareersStudyGrewNormalGrew UpLettersDevotedEssaysFiction Writing Author:Alexander Chee
“Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.” WayDifferentSchoolGrowsGrowing UpGrewNormalGrew UpSurvivalConcernDifferent WaysEtcTeenage Author:Rose McGowan
“I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.” WayYearsKidsHateGrewMomColdDadHusbandNormalGrew UpMy DadMy MomWeatherMy HusbandSkiingCold Weather Author:Julie Bowen
“It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.” FeelsYearsWellsTermFourCollegeGrewNormalGrew UpMovedFour YearsHometownPittsburghDormsCollege Experience Author:Zachary Quinto
“I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.” PeopleStarsStuffTermRocksGrewNormalGrew UpConceptsSurroundingsRock Star Author:Anthony Kiedis
“I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.” ThinkingI CanStoriesMy OwnPoorRoomsGrewNormalGrew UpVansAlaskaSuburbs Author:Lisa Loeb