Midwest Quotes
100 Midwest quotes by 93 unique authors
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Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to…
— Luke Perry
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You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
— Dean Norris
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The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
— Jeremy Piven
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Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
— Jeremy Piven
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I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who…
— Shawn Ryan
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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…
— Daniel Sunjata
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The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to…
— Nancy Travis
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Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are,…
— Steven Levitan
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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.
— Angie Everhart
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I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was…
— Richard Beymer
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something…
— Patrick Carney
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I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved…
— Len Cariou
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I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
— Bill Goldberg
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I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports…
— Johnny Galecki
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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to…
— Vinod Khosla
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Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
— Judy Woodruff
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I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.
— Ron Paul
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After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the…
— Tracy Letts
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in…
— Al Franken
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I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken…
— Cindy Crawford
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I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum,…
— Cindy Crawford
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often…
— Willem Dafoe
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted…
— Umberto Eco
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It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
— Dave Eggers
Who Wrote These Midwest Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 100 Midwest Quotes, led by these top contributors: