I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
I was born in the Midwest, where salad was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.
The thing I don't like about L. A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.
I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.
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.