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Related We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was e... TINA FEY My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just ... WAYNE BRADY I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling... GREG MACGILLIVRAY We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad s... CHANDLER RIGGS I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up. ANA DE ARMAS My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p... J. J. WATT I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I c... LUCAS TILL I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We did... MEG WOLITZER I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the F... MARK PELLEGRINO Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to... GORAN IVANISEVIC Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye... NICK JONAS I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew... KATEE SACKHOFF I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing ... KAREN FINERMAN I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growin... ANYA TAYLOR-JOY We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the... MICHAEL NUTTER Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that. LIZA MINNELLI My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't muc... LEE RADZIWILL I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London ... TONY JUDT My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, wa... DREE HEMINGWAY I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come h... ARMIE HAMMER I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that. COLIN KAEPERNICK Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much. SIDNEY CROSBY I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me. BEN SCHWARTZ Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really... JEREMY LIN Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or '... NANCY A. COLLINS I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a... GARTH ENNIS There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when... GARRY HYNES I was fortunate growing up on the farm. My parents were very understanding and backed me up all the ... KRIS WALTER With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents. MALLORY ORTBERG Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn'... CARLOS PENA, JR. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a f... EMMANUEL JAL I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parent... RITA ORA I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself up... AN NA Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station... ROGER EBERT It's awesome. My parents have sacrificed so much for me. Growing up, they've basically been driving ... JAKE KLASSEN I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at ho... LUIS SUAREZ Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents... NATHAN FILLION The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were li... MAGGIE STIEFVATER 'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much... JEFF NICHOLS Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruine... AARON STATON As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising ... APOLO OHNO I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi... SHAWN LEVY Growing up, I played 'Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball' and just whatever I could get my hands on. ... JUSTIN VERLANDER I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, ... JOSH HENDERSON As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to... DARBY STANCHFIELD I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watc... LAURA HARRIER My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician b... MADI DIAZ I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characte... ANDY SERKIS I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I... BRYSON TILLER I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we alw... TAHJ MOWRY When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ... FRANK OCEAN As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the... GABRIELLE UNION Growing up, my parents loved Bon Jovi and Boston and Rush and all that, but it wasn't really con... CASSADEE POPE I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a you... MARLEE MATLIN I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I... BRYSON TILLER I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea... TONY DUNGY My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, ... JOSH DUHAMEL I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they ... BILL BRYSON My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing. KEVIN HART I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually... LA'PORSHA RENAE I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers... RICHARD E. ROBBINS It wasn't until about February, maybe as much as five or six weeks of slow leaking that we came to d... GEORGE HECHT I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count... CARL WILSON All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, ... STEVE HARVEY My dad was so much fun growing up. ABBY ELLIOTT All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I lea... LEO BUSCAGLIA So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don'... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a... MEGHAN TRAINOR When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa... DAN HARMON When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer ... DONALD TRUMP, JR. The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of ... ANDREW LUCK If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their D... CARLTON CUSE I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things t... GRAHAM ELLIOT I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do... DWAYNE JOHNSON I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter... KALEY CUOCO I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six... SAM BRADFORD I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each ot... NADIA BJORLIN Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, san... AMOR TOWLES I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago... MARLEE MATLIN The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldier... KEVIN LOVE I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's f... CANELO ALVAREZ The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierc... JENNIFER GARNER I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thoug... KEVIN NEALON I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun. ERIKA ELENIAK People will be much more inclined to watch broadband-delivered video if it shows up on the TV screen... TOM ROGERS I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch mov... JOSS WHEDON I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I... TRACEY ULLMAN That's part of being a rookie and growing up as a player. You don't get your proper rest (on a five-... JACQUES BEAULIEU There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show of... RICKIE FOWLER I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g... AL FRANKEN You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under ... PATRICK SWAYZE My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game... RICKIE FOWLER Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my s... LEA MICHELE My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years,... DAVID LAMBERT
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