I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

- Marion Cotillard

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.

- Rebel Wilson

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

- Quentin Crisp

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

- Pamela Stephenson

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

- Pete Hamill

In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

- P. J. O'Rourke

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

- Nita Ambani

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

- Neill Blomkamp

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

- Megan Abbott

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

- Melissa Bean

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

- Anna Sui

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

- Lisa Loeb

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

- John Fahey

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

- James Iha

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

- Harlan Coben

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

- Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

- Ed Koch

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

- Dave Foley

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

- Ben Mendelsohn

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

- Billy Corgan