Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.'
Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.
I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I'm from.
I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all this other stuff. The city was really depleted.
