I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.
A Boogie wit da Hoodien
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
A. J. McLean
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville
I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I was raised to be independent.
Abby Lee Miller
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara
I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
Abigail Johnson
The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.
Adam F. Goldberg
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
Adam Sandler
With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.
Adhir Kalyan
I was raised in a very religious household - it wasn't dogma, but we were raised Christian; we went to church every Sunday, Bible study, Bible camp every summer.
Adrienne C. Moore
I'm a girl from the South, so I was raised with morals - you know, your family's first.
I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
Aisha Tyler
I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.
I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.
Aja Brown
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
Al Sharpton
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
Alan Furst
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.
I was raised in the '90s. I love 'Seinfeld.'
I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
I was raised with three bothers, no sisters. I've always been a tomboy.
I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.
If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!
I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it's a spiritual act.
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
Just like my kids, I was raised with our Kentucky values. We treat everyone with respect, and we look out for our neighbors.
I want to play for Central because I love the club. I was raised there and taught football there. Central is where it all began for me.
I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
I was raised to pretend.
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
