Quotes About Midwest

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

I'm proud to come from the Midwest and that's where I'm comfortable at.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I'm from the Midwest.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

I think a lot of gay kids in the midwest or in places not in New York have to overachieve in order to sort of get through the fear of what they're going through.

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'