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Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.


Liza Minnelli

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DAVID JOHANSEN When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON Ozzie and Harriet.
JENNA MORASCA You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV...
DAVE ROWNTREE We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV pro...
RICHARD CORLISS When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if i...
KATHRYN LASKY Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
LAURA HARRIER I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the p...
MARGAUX HEMINGWAY When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistaken...
ELLEN DEGENERES When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head ...
BILL GATES My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had ...
ALEXA RAY JOEL When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It...
MARTIN COMPSTON Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughte...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Side note: When I dressed up like Harley Quinn on TV a long time ago, everyone was like, 'Who is...
AJ LEE I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little the...
KELLAN LUTZ My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa...
BILL DE BLASIO I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was ...
CHRIS COLFER With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I...
ADAM BEACH I think we kind of gravitated toward the drama between the family, which was so fascinating and inte...
JOHN STAMOS Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
MALLORY ORTBERG Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramat...
BEN FOLDS When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe...
ROB REINER Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'C...
JOHN WATERS I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th...
MARK RUFFALO There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ...
KATE MICUCCI I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un...
LAUREN TARSHIS There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA These aren't Ozzie and Harriet days. There are so many dangers out there.
JACK CHURCH I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that...
TAMARA TUNIE Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or '...
NANCY A. COLLINS I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try ...
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We w...
AMBER COPE 'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and i...
NIKKI REED The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God...
BIANCA LAWSON I was fortunate growing up on the farm. My parents were very understanding and backed me up all the ...
KRIS WALTER Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the ...
JESSICA LANGE Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipu...
NAEEM KHAN You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you...
PAM BONDI It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so i...
MAHERSHALA ALI I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Sa...
ANDY SAMBERG I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my gran...
JAMIE WYETH When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, reb...
JOEY RAMONE I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for ...
PETER BERG Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to...
GORAN IVANISEVIC I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves bec...
RAM SHRIRAM I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growin...
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters...
JEFF KINNEY I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they wer...
DAVID TENNANT I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
TAMSIN GREIG I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew...
KATEE SACKHOFF My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called...
EDWARD ZWICK Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex...
JOHN MELLENCAMP I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ...
JESSICA VALENTI Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually ...
MILEY CYRUS When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I w...
PATRICK CHAN My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
AUBREY PLAZA When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered t...
AZZEDINE ALAIA When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I w...
CAROL BURNETT When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly...
CHRIS LILLEY Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorou...
RYAN MURPHY I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up,...
ANDIE MACDOWELL I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I wa...
ELIZA DUSHKU I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I gre...
SARAH SILVERMAN I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my si...
ALEX MORGAN I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be...
MADONNA CICCONE When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ...
FRANK OCEAN I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th...
YUNJIN KIM When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like,...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm l...
LAURA HARRIER I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six...
SAM BRADFORD I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of pl...
BROOKE SWEAT When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke...
JAMES FRANCO Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller&#...
JILL DAVIS Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P...
ALICE EVE My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around...
QUEEN LATIFAH My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was s...
DOLLY PARTON When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t...
TOM HANKS When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehous...
JACK ANTONOFF Nowadays, kids are not like when I was growing up. That is why it's important for parents to get inv...
CLARENCE MOORE When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys we...
JOE MANGANIELLO I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ...
EARL MONROE Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a ...
ALLY CARTER My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
MALLORY JANSEN The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role mode...
RUSSELL TOVEY Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever ...
AMY POEHLER When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle...
CLIVE SINCLAIR When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local ga...
ANDREW O'HAGAN Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap...
MADI DIAZ When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just ev...
RYAN LOCHTE That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were po...
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LIZA TICHENOR Oh, we're just taking care of our pig.
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