Quotes About Texas

The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas.

Texas is as alien as Mars.

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

I've never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of Texas. I live and breathe Texas.

When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.

I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the United States gets out of having Texas as one of the states.

From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.

I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

My grandparents would take me out fishing in their boat once a week from when I was about two or three, growing up in in Texas and Louisiana. I loved it.

I'm from Houston, Texas.

I say it all the time: Texas high school football. It's no joke. It's a big deal. And when you get good coaches like I had at Lake Travis, and then you play other good programs, it develops you very quickly, and it gets you going.

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

East Texas isn't known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn't the type of guy that put my name out there.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.