Quotes About Upbringing

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a bit grand, and it wasn't an amphitheatre or anything like that, just a little place with a roll-up curtain box and I'm sure the plays were childish lopsided things.

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

My grandfather D. Ramanaidu has been in the film business for over 50 years, so I grew up in films.

I grew up close to my grandma.

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.

I grew up with grandparents. My grandparents played a massive part of my growing up.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!

My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

I was brought up on animal grease.

My parents did a great job.