Growing Up

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I was a handful growing up.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.