Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

I grew up in a craftsman’s home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I grew up with the religion of ‘Star Wars,’ frankly. That’s when I realized there is something bigger out there… and it’s called The Force.

Television and I grew up together.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father’s people are buried there.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I grew up listening to English music.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that’s how I got into film, actually.

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I’d know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don’t think.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I’m used to being around guys.

It’s an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I’m a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that’s how I grew up.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I don’t have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don’t know what it’s like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn’t being cultivated.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and ’48 Hrs.’

I was never somebody who grew up going, ‘I really want to be a singer in a band,’ and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I’m a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware – somebody’s elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

I grew up in Plano, Texas.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

I grew up watching ‘Braveheart’ and ‘Gladiator.’ Those are my ‘Star Wars.’ They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

I’m excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.

I love ’70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don’t know Spring Break. That doesn’t exist in Europe.

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

I grew up with reggae music.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I’ve been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don’t eat like that anymore.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.