Midwest Quotes

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.

All the people of the earth could be fed from the land within a circle of a thousand mile radius [of Kansas City.]

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.

My wife grew up in Cleveland.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.