Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.
I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.
Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
The Trump World Tower was home growing up, and it's where my office is.
Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point.
I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
I was a big fan of Bret Hart growing up, and Shawn Michaels, the Undertaker, Triple H. I've probably drawn from them when I was younger.
Growing up, I was a big boxing and wrestling fan. I love people like the Undertaker and Prince Naseem: they knew how to make a big entrance!
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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 learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
