Quotes About Upbringing

I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural thing to do.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

I grew up listening to old soul.

My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other people have liked and admired his lifestyle.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.

It is important to me that I was not raised in Los Angeles.

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

Acting is not in the blood. My parents weren't actors, but I imagine that if you've been brought up with actors, you have a lovely time at home and just want that to carry on.

I've been brought up in a really lovely family, so I'm lucky.

My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Luckily, my parents are liberal.

I'm not one for lying to children.