Quotes About Upbringing

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

He was in Boston and I grew up in Orlando. It's not so much like father-son, it's coach-player.

I grew up in Orlando.

My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

I grew up so conservative. I grew up as an orthodox Jew.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.

I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a highly religious Serbian Orthodox, spending most of her time in church. It's a great mix, and I use all these elements in my work.

I come from an orthodox Muslim family.

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

I grew up in a film-loving family. We watched the Oscars every year. My favorite thing in the whole world was film. The Oscars obviously was the holy grail.

I did not bring up my child to think that she was a star. If I had treated her any differently, it would have messed everything up. She was brought up normally, like other kids, in a normal house, and it was a normal, middle-class life.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Our father passed away when we were young so mom was the mom and the dad.

My parents made choices that would put me in environments where I would feel comfortable. And I'm really appreciative of that. They made sure we had some Latinos in our lives, even though there were none near the area I grew up in.