Top 100 I Grow Up Quotes
#1. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#3. When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.
Kiley Dean
#4. I am greedy for both Hollywood and Bollywood. For me, Bollywood is not new, as it is something that I grow up on ... I know the plot ... stories and characters that are written and made. I haven't got the right opportunity to show my work in Bollywood.
Tena Desae
#5. Nobody every says, "When I grow up, I want to be a junkie.
Chris Mendius
#6. Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
Stephen King
#7. I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
Stephen Chbosky
#8. I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
Maya Rudolph
#10. With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.
Hope Solo
#11. Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze
Jojo Moyes
#13. He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or maybe it was the other way around: When there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, "When I grow up, I am going to be happy.
Guus Kuijer
#14. You ask in awful lot of questions."
"When I grow up, I want to be a detective just like you."
He looked over and saw her grinning. He laughed. "I suppose you do share my penchant for raising Cain.
Derek Landy
#15. But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.
Ruth Reichl
#16. When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.
Chet Atkins
#17. Who's out there?" I say.
"Just teenagers," my father says.
"Why are they like that?"
"That's just the way they are."
"Will I be like that when I grow up?"
"You? Perish the thought.
Joshua Gaylord
#18. It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice ... Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'
Keke Palmer
#20. I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.
Ron Silver
#21. Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.
Jerry Della Femina
#22. I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Larry King
#23. When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright
Will give me all the cream in sight.
And anyone who dares to say
'Poor Puss' to me will rue the day.
Then having swallowed him I'll creep
Into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.
Oliver Herford
#24. I stop painting entirely. I get a job in advertising. I get older. I grow up, I suppose. I never look back except in those moments when I can't stop fucking thinking about it.
Jami Attenberg
#25. That's who I want to be when I grow up.
Mitch Albom
#26. I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.
Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia."
"Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.
Rick Riordan
#27. My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.
John Lennon
#28. When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow..
Betty Smith
#29. I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
James Patterson
#30. Finally she said, "When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too ... "
Don't grow up," I told her. "It only gets more confusing.
Julianna Baggott
#31. Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
Anna Chlumsky
#32. Mom: A doctor, Lily? AND your own business? I want to be you when I grow up.
Colleen Hoover
#33. I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.
Brian Spellman
#34. I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth ... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Wolfgang Puck
#35. I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
Matt Damon
#37. I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
Tamora Pierce
#38. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...
Brian K. Vaughan
#39. That raccoon is my goddamn role model. He is the worst and best Patronus ever, and I want to be just like him when I grow up.
Jenny Lawson
#41. I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
Bill Atkinson
#42. You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Anthony Doerr
#44. When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.
Le Thi Diem Thuy
#46. I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. To make this world a whole lot brighter,
when I grow up I'll be a writer.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
#48. Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.
Kay Panabaker
#49. When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
Karen Kain
#50. Dad?"
"What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.
"What should I be when I grow up?"
The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.
Robert M. Pirsig
#52. When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon
#53. I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.
Raven-Symone
#55. Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#56. Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'
Sherri Shepherd
#57. When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Andrew Forrest
#58. No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'
Stacy Schiff
#59. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#60. I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up
Lenny Bruce
#61. When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
Mara Wilson
#62. I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng.
Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.
P.C. Cast
#63. It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.
Danny Pintauro
#64. Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
Jodi Picoult
#65. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
Mackenzie Rosman
#66. I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
Lisa Papademetriou
#67. I want to be somebody when I grow up. Somebody with grown-up dreams and screams for these dreams to be crossover dreams into reality.
Nyambi Nyambi
#68. Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.
Ozzy Osbourne
#69. As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
Taylor Swift
#70. I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.
Steven Spielberg
#71. My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.
Not everybody does.
Brian K. Vaughan
#72. CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
Bill Watterson
#73. ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.
Nicole Krauss
#74. It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
Goldie Hawn
#75. I want to be Gwyneth Paltrow when I grow up! She's been able to have such a great career, such a great family and she stays so humble and so real.
Matthew Morrison
#76. I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.
Chelsea Clinton
#77. I'm not even sure of what I want in a woman yet. I have a lot of things to do in life. When I grow up as long as she can cook, take care of the kids, and make me feel like "Daddy" then I'll be alright with her.
Kirko Bangz
#78. I grow up relying upon on my own shoulders even from the moment they were too weak to hold me back, but I knew it is the only to become a tough guy.
M.F. Moonzajer
#79. I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Dawn French
#80. I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.
Jerry Doyle
#81. Don't you see that I'm trying to do exactly that? How in the world can I grow up if I continue to do as I'm told, smiling and nodding like some pretty robot? What kind of a life is that?
Alice Clayton
#82. When I grow up," I said, "I'm gonna open an all day breakfast buffet called Scrambled Eggs and Hashtags. It's gonna be delicious!
Anonymous
#83. When I grow up, I want to be like Diplo, for sure.
Kreayshawn
#84. I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
Oscar Isaac
#85. One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.
Will Ferrell
#86. Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'
Lilla Crawford
#87. When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
Jessica Savitch
#88. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
Tillie Olsen
#89. I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Mara Wilson
#90. Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
Neil Gaiman
#91. I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'
Allen Leech
#92. My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'
Doug Liman
#94. The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, "When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad." It is a convicting responsibility for us fathers and grandfathers.
Billy Graham
#95. It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.
Rick Husband
#96. But, Mr. Lucado, I want to be a missionary when I grow up,
Max Lucado
#97. I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'
Robert Webb
#98. I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it.
Sterling Beaumon
#99. My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.'
Rick Gonzalez
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