Josh O'Connor Quotes

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.

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

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

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.

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town.

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

I was the last person that any of my friends would have pictured moving to the boonies.

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.

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.

My grandfather loved the countryside.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.