Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
Terry Bradshaw

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
Carroll Quigley

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
Salma Hayek

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.
Bruce Babbitt

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
Moon Unit Zappa

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
George Clooney

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Wole Soyinka

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne

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

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
Matt Groening

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
Cameron Diaz

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
Michael Caine