Paul Rudd Quotes

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

I'm a Midwesterner.

I'm from the Midwest.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

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.

I come from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the Union.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

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

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

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.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

I come from the heart of America.

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

I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.