Midwest Quotes

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

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

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

If you believe that life should be full of adventure, then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.