Eliot Sumner Quotes

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I am a country boy at heart.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

My mom is a country lady. She wants to be in the trees.

I grew up on a farm.

I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

New York is in my DNA.

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Liverpool will always be my home.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

I grew up as a country boy.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

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

Home is where my dignity lives, not necessarily where my ancestors put down roots.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.