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My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa...
KID CUDI I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any ide...
DYLAN WALSH![]()
To have your parents get divorced at a young age, there's a lot of turbulence. We all grew up to...
REID HOFFMAN![]()
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
PAT NIXON I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.
HUMA ABEDIN I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house w...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I...
CORY HARDRICT My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David...
MADCHEN AMICK![]()
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable...
KATIE MCGRATH I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn...
AMBER ROSE![]()
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN![]()
My theory in the '90s was that I didn't want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce i...
WHIT STILLMAN![]()
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a s...
ANDREW J. FEUSTEL I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get ...
JEFF LEMIRE I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was lik...
JONATHAN LIPNICKI I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ...
MIKE ROWE I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimi...
LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA![]()
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o...
ADAM DRIVER My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i...
ELOISE MUMFORD 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ...
LARENZ TATE![]()
I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycle...
BRENE BROWN I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and ag...
ABBIE CORNISH My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who ...
GREY DAMON![]()
My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It wa...
TABATHA COFFEY I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much prof...
JASON LEE I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the ...
RYAN PHILLIPPE I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B![]()
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof...
TOM WATSON When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn...
JODY WILLIAMS My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.
CAROLE KING![]()
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h...
RALPH LAUREN![]()
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my ho...
NINA GARCIA I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno...
BONNIE MCKEE![]()
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
AISHA TYLER There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d...
DAVE LOMBARDO![]()
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take...
KURT COBAIN Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&...
LANCE HENRIKSEN![]()
Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he ...
GINNIFER GOODWIN I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was thei...
JAMES BADGE DALE We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO![]()
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w...
FAITH HILL![]()
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about ...
BOB GELDOF![]()
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#...
BILL BURR My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN![]()
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth...
ANTHONY HOPKINS![]()
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... ...
PAUL WALKER I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virt...
LA'PORSHA RENAE When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar...
FAITH EVANS I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES![]()
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding ...
FRANK BRUNO I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz peopl...
HENRY THOMAS The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
KATE FLEETWOOD I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and wa...
MARK GATISS![]()
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov...
ELVIS COSTELLO![]()
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in th...
TRAVIS SCOTT As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS![]()
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ...
JESSICA VALENTI I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of b...
VANESSA PARADIS I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this ...
PATTI SCIALFA The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as ...
ALAN HOVHANESS![]()
I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug...
MARY J. BLIGE![]()
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did...
AMY TAN When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write...
JULIANA HATFIELD![]()
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne...
PAUL THEROUX![]()
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ...
ROSA PARKS I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR![]()
I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS![]()
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t...
IRIS APFEL![]()
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ...
KEVYN AUCOIN I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH![]()
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that ...
J. COLE I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED![]()
I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t...
JOHN C. REILLY I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re...
MAGGIE LAWSON![]()
I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE![]()
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, ...
IMRE KERTESZ![]()
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this...
MICHELLE FORBES![]()
As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home wh...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI![]()
I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren'...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER![]()
My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the be...
PAUL SAMUELSON I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei...
KATHARINE ISABELLE![]()
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of...
ANNA KENDRICK![]()
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. I...
KATHERINE DUNHAM I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't i...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't...
NAOMI BENARON
DOUGLAS WOOD
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any ide...
DYLAN WALSH
To have your parents get divorced at a young age, there's a lot of turbulence. We all grew up to... REID HOFFMAN
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up. PAT NIXON I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.
HUMA ABEDIN I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house w...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I...
CORY HARDRICT My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David...
MADCHEN AMICK
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable... KATIE MCGRATH I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn...
AMBER ROSE
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe... ELIZABETH GILBERT There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN
My theory in the '90s was that I didn't want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce i... WHIT STILLMAN
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a s...
ANDREW J. FEUSTEL I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get ...
JEFF LEMIRE I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was lik...
JONATHAN LIPNICKI I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ...
MIKE ROWE I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimi...
LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... ADAM DRIVER My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i...
ELOISE MUMFORD 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ...
LARENZ TATE
I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycle... BRENE BROWN I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and ag...
ABBIE CORNISH My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who ...
GREY DAMON
My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It wa... TABATHA COFFEY I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much prof...
JASON LEE I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the ...
RYAN PHILLIPPE I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof... TOM WATSON When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn...
JODY WILLIAMS My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.
CAROLE KING
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h... RALPH LAUREN
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my ho... NINA GARCIA I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno...
BONNIE MCKEE
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. AISHA TYLER There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d...
DAVE LOMBARDO
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take... KURT COBAIN Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&...
LANCE HENRIKSEN
Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he ... GINNIFER GOODWIN I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was thei...
JAMES BADGE DALE We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about ... BOB GELDOF
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#... BILL BURR My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... ... PAUL WALKER I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virt...
LA'PORSHA RENAE When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar...
FAITH EVANS I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding ... FRANK BRUNO I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz peopl...
HENRY THOMAS The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
KATE FLEETWOOD I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and wa...
MARK GATISS
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov... ELVIS COSTELLO
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in th... TRAVIS SCOTT As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ... JESSICA VALENTI I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of b...
VANESSA PARADIS I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this ...
PATTI SCIALFA The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as ...
ALAN HOVHANESS
I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug... MARY J. BLIGE
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... AMY TAN When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write...
JULIANA HATFIELD
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne... PAUL THEROUX
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ... ROSA PARKS I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR
I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t... IRIS APFEL
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... KEVYN AUCOIN I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that ... J. COLE I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED
I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... JOHN C. REILLY I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re...
MAGGIE LAWSON
I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, ...
IMRE KERTESZ
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m... RODNEY BROOKS I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this...
MICHELLE FORBES
As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home wh... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren'... NICOLE SCHERZINGER
My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the be... PAUL SAMUELSON I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei...
KATHARINE ISABELLE
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. I... KATHERINE DUNHAM I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't i...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't...
NAOMI BENARON
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddl... 
Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to br... 
It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take. 
What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolv... 
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. 
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose. 
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you... 
Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we... 
They warned me, 'you're going to be doing the screen test with Daniel Radcliffe a week after... 