4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.