“I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.” SongCitiesCarNew YorkTelevisionGrewInternetGrew UpHip HopRadioHipsExcitementHopsBroadsNew York CityTape80sCablesHip Hop Music Author:Michael Rapaport
“I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.” StillsBitsTelevisionTvsGrewGrew UpMediums Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.” PeopleChildrenParentClassRichMiddleNew YorkTelevisionGrewGrew UpRaisedEntertainmentMiddle ClassRich PeopleOnly Child Author:Billy Eichner
“The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?” ThinkingShowsRememberFunTelevisionGrewGrew UpErasPlotConventionsTransparent Author:Joe Bradley
“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.” WorldRealityHouseParentTelevisionGrewGrew UpMy FamilyAccidentsFarmsMy SisterBubblesDishesStorytellerFamily FarmsSmall Family Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'” WayLooksI CanReasonKidsHoursGoneTelevisionTvsGrewGrew UpResearchReason WhyJustifyOverwhelmedWatching Tv Author:Matt Groening
“I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.” PoliticalUsedTelevisionGrewGrew UpHouseholdMumMrs Thatcher Author:Cherie Lunghi
“I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.” FirstsShowsActingTelevisionGrewGrew UpCamerasFirst LoveTelevision Shows Author:Seth Green
“I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television'; it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.” ThinkingSaidKidsHateFatherWatchesTelevisionGrewNeededGrew UpI Hate Author:Robert Knepper
“I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.” ThinkingProblemTechnologyCrazyTelevisionTvsProductsGrewGrew UpDumbWatching Tv Author:Jason Bateman
“I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.” SpaceTelevisionGrewComputerGrew UpScreensAffectedComputer Screen Author:Rick Alverson
“I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.” DoneMy OwnTelevisionGrewGrew UpBoxing Author:Raymond Cruz
“I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.” YearsWellsUsedArtistNightNextIndividualComedyGreaterGroupsTelevisionGrewDramaCreatingGrew UpTheaterContributionOne NightGood RelationshipCreating Something Author:Howard Shore
“We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.” WorldBookWholePastCultureViewsThis WorldTelevisionBrotherGrewMomDadConversationCreatingGrew UpMadRadioAbsenceWhole WorldWho I AmStarksWorld ViewTranssexuals Author:Kate Bornstein
“Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.” TryingYearsKindWould BeUsedTelevisionGrewGrew UpPercentNineZoneAustraliaTwilightMumTwistsNine YearsHitchcockTwilight Zone Author:Jacki Weaver
“I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.” ShowsTelevisionGrewDadGrew UpHatedSneak Author:Robert Knepper
“I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.” IfsKnowsTelevisionGrewGrew Up Author:Frank Caliendo
“I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.” PeopleImportantPlayBigsHouseLanguageExistenceTalkingFireTelevisionGrewGrew UpLaughterBarsEveningTeenagerTease Author:Dylan Moran
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan
“I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.” ThinkingLooksBodyPerfectIssuesTelevisionMinesGrewGrew UpWeightBody ImageOrbs Author:Ronda Rousey
“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.” EconomicTelevisionGrewGrew UpModelsDrivenAdvertisingEconomic Models Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.” PeopleLooksFacesTelevisionGrewGrew UpPuzzled Author:Joe Zee