'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.
A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.
'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?
Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat.
I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.
I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn't a goth or a social group sort of thing.
While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
