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"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."

"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
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"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
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