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 grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

‘Felicity’ was my ‘Gilmore Girls’ because I grew up in a small town.

I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions, and my mother’s contempt for my father.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I grew up like Athena – covered with playing cards instead of armor – and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, ‘Jim Rash’ just screams ‘Southern boy.’

I find it hard to be labelled in this new ‘super-rich’ category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that ‘to get rich is glorious’ is really a new phenomenon. I certainly...

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family’s faith.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn’t play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down...

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

I don’t shoot guns. I don’t know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll try it.’

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren’t comfortable dancing, you weren’t going to get any girls.

I grew up listening to old soul.

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 writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching ‘Scooby Doo.’

I grew up as an only child.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn’t know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do,...

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

I grew up in a funny way.

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn’t realize how much it affected me.

Wherever a writer grew up, they’re obviously influenced by that area, and I’m sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn’t have the romantic history of the West.

I grew up with reggae music.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It...

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn’t get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work...

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

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

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It’s in the blood.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people,...

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

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.