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

- Douglas Wilson

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

- Nick Goepper

I love the Midwest accent.

- Lucy Punch

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

- Lara Flynn Boyle

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

- Joe Lando

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

- Jami Attenberg

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.

- Jerry Springer

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

- Harmon Killebrew

I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

- Ellie Kemper

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

- Daniel Breaker

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.

- Alan Arkin

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

- Diablo Cody

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

- Chuck Inglish

I'm from the Midwest.

- Craig Kilborn

I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.

- Christina Baker Kline

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

- Bill Goldberg

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.

- Bill Dedman

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.

- Angie Everhart

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

- Andrew Rannells

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

- Alex Graves