Simple Upbringing Quotes

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

I'm a child of provincial France.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.

I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

I didn't grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

I think I'll be one of those moms that doesn't raise her kids with too much technology around because I didn't have much of that growing up. I was creative and played with what I had.

My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

I'm just a normal kid, really, from an inner-city background.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

I'm a kid from Kansas, so J.C. Penney was where I got all my clothes from kindergarten to around 7th grade.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.