Quotes About Community

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.