Wes Craven Quotes

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

I grew up in a very normal home.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I grew up in the suburbs.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I didn't have a very religious family.

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome.

I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.

Where I grew up, it was a very open home.

My parents were strict but loving.

I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

Growing up in my household with seven women, I'd hear all types of music.