Quotes About Upbringing

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

being a good dragon is about the choices you make no matter where you are or who raised you or how.

Were you raised under a mountain?

It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

I grew up in the art world.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

It's about which of these kids has a moral compass, even if their parents don't

The boys who do have a moral compass, and a conscience, will turn out to be decent people and good men one day. They've learned a hell of a lesson here, but in the end, they're finding their way to do the right thing.

We have a strong moral system here, based on family values.

The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.

None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not mine. Nor are my upbringing not my town nor its tragedies. How can these things be mine? Holding me responsible for keeping hidden this information is ridiculous. I was born into a town and a family and the town and my family happened to me. I own none of it. It's everyone's.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.