Top 263 Midwest Quotes & Sayings

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 love the Midwest accent.

There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

Midwest elections have consequences.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

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 such a tabula rasa.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

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.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

I'm a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

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

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

I could have moved anywhere I wanted to. But for family reasons, I stayed in the Midwest.

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 from the Midwest.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing.

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.

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

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

In most places in the Midwest, the best food is found in people's homes, on their farms, at church potlucks.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine.

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

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

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

There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

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

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for granted and you have to work for what you get so. That's funny because my friend Frank Anderson said something really funny he goes, "A lot of the people from the midwest are the laziest shits I've ever met." And he's right. I know some. You can't say its a stereotype that only people from the Midwest are that way because there are definitely people I know who hate to work and just want to hang out and drink beer.

So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.

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.

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

I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest.

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.

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

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

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

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

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

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

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

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.