I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
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Related I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I... ELLEN PAGE I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well... EDDIE MARSAN I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for... Q-TIP I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it. AWKWAFINA Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a ... MEG ROSOFF I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ... KIM DICKENS My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'... RAFE SPALL I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love... HUGH LAURIE I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to ... EVE ENSLER I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out. NATURI NAUGHTON I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm ... YURI LOWENTHAL What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it.... JAIME WINSTONE With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew... BILL MURRAY People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids... TORI SPELLING I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ... ADRIEN BRODY It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong... REGGIE BUSH I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I... ANSON MOUNT I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I g... DANIEL H. WILSON I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta... JILLIAN HERVEY II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s... NATHALIE KELLEY Depression can kill you. 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I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just... DALLAS ROBERTS I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, clim... TAYLOR KINNEY I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat. CHRIS O'DOWD In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesam... JACKI WEAVER A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it ... SHAILENE WOODLEY Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complic... PHIL COLLINS It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y... BILL PAXTON All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love s... CAMILA CABELLO I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boa... ADAM RICKITT My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appa... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I... DANIEL RADCLIFFE My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the r... TOM DRURY I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also bange... ALIA BHATT I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - c... RAMI MALEK 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foun... GEORGE SOROS Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir... LAURA OSNES I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I t... PAUL ALLEN In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in N... ENRICO COLANTONI A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew u... HARRY STYLES I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or th... TAYLOR LAUTNER I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familia... LISA LUTZ The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personali... NINA CONTI I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate. DANIEL HUMM I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan. MALCOLM DAVID KELLEY It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't reall... AARON LAZAR I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ... OLIVER STONE With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet... BEN MENDELSOHN I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th... HEATHER GRAHAM My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world,... GARY ROSS Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'... MARILYN MONROE I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no... DYLAN WALSH I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't m... UZO ADUBA I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was... SAM PHILLIPS My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ... TATIANA MASLANY I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I out... JOANNA GARCIA 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 listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her... JANE WIEDLIN I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terri... DENIS LEARY I grew up in suburbia, BRET ELLIS I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to sever... KATHERINE KELLY It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepte... UTADA HIKARU I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out... MICHAEL HANEKE With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J... ABRAHAM MASLOW It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it a... VANESSA BAYER Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also ... JENNA FISCHER I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that... TAMARA TUNIE The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin... FLORENCE WELCH I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu... SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my ca... BELLA HADID I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico. RAUL LABRADOR When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I real... RAY PARK I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. BETH HENLEY I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc... ED HARRIS If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL
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JEFF MERKLEY My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto t... JEFF DUNHAM A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic huma... JEFF LINDSAY Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I h... JEFF LINDSAY Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a cert... JEFF PHILLIPS I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of t... JEFF FORTENBERRY By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks... JEFF GILES Is that why you're crying?" (...) "It's just hormones," she said. "I didn't want anyone to see.... JEFF LINDSAY ¿Acaso no estábamos todos locos cuando dormíamos? ¿Qué era el sueño, al fin y al cabo, sino el... JEFF LINDSAY Pero, por triste que sea, la vida no siempre imita al arte. -Dexter JEFF LINDSAY That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Pot... JEFF LINDSAY Cualquiera puede ser encantador si no le importa mentir y decir todas las cosas estúpidas, obvias y... JEFF LINDSAY She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine." I looked over at my answerin... JEFF LINDSAY I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wai... JEFF LINDSAY Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist. JEFF LINDSAY After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the c... JEFF LINDSAY But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint d... JEFF LINDSAY It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep... JEFF LINDSAY It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an eve... JEFF LINDSAY Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion ... JEFF LINDSAY the faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock... JEFF LINDSAY …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark... JEFF LINDSAY When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultiva... JEFF LINDSAY What a terrible thing life can be. JEFF LINDSAY It really is better to be lucky than to be good. JEFF LINDSAY It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that... JEFF LINDSAY What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the ... JEFF LINDSAY And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do th... JEFF LINDSAY It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky a... JEFF LINDSAY