Grew Quotes - Page 14

• I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

  Emma Roberts

  Mom, Independent, Grew Up

  "Emma Roberts is Not a Hollywood Cliché". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Class

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• I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

  Nile Rodgers

  Song, Thinking, Stories

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• I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

  Seth Rogen

  Men, Style, Vancouver

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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Dad, Actors, Littles

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• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  Rachel Roy

  People, Insightful, Way

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• As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

  Ja Rule

  Running, Queens, Rap

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Grew Up

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• I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

  Paul Ryan

  Block, Kind, Grew Up

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  Katey Sagal

  Soul, Listening, Grew Up

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• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  Carlos Santana

  Mother, Kings, Eye

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• I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

  Eric Schmidt

  Views, Choices, Loser

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

  Liev Schreiber

  New York, East, Sides

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow". "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow" with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2000.

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• No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

  Liev Schreiber

  Hockey, Ice, People

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, New York, Dad

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• I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

  David Schwimmer

  Thinking, Directors, Watching Tv

  "David Schwimmer's Midwest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  Martin Scorsese

  Italian, East, Sides

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• I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

  Martin Scorsese

  Running, Kids, Italian

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 17, 2004.

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• I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

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• A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Lucky, Grew Up

  "I'm a little wounded, but I feel my mojo and I like it". Interview with David Peschek, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2007.

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• I grew up in Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

  Minnesota, Grew Up

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• You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

  Tom Selleck

  Tvs, Grew Up, Knows

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