Quotes About Upbringing

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

My dad always told me that shoes should be clean and shiny, so I'm really particular about it.

My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop.

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.

There's a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.

A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

I grew up in Baltimore.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.