Graham Moore Quotes

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

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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

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'm a Midwesterner.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I'm from the Midwest.

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

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

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

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

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.

I'm basically a homegrown American.

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

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.

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

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 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'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.