Elijah Kelley Quotes

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren't a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom's closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.

I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

I grew up in a really small town.

Coming from a small town of Mexico, Missouri, we got 11,000 people. Never seen a celebrity.

I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.