Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the center of the world.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Nicole is, as I'm sure everyone is aware, she's very open. She's very sexual about things and she definitely doesn't hold back, which is very hard for me to accept, because I was raised in Russia.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.