Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.

I never thought I'd be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to know how to carry myself; I had to act like I was older than I was.

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

Just like my kids, I was raised with our Kentucky values. We treat everyone with respect, and we look out for our neighbors.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

I grew up in Miami, which is a very 'cool' city, but I was a science nerd.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.