Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.
We must have the audacity to turn up the frequency of our truths.
When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.
I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
As a kid growing up in California, I collected autographs.
I didn't grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.
I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
When I got knocked down, I got back up.
I'll back up anything my dad says.
I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.
There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
