Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

The nationalization of Midwestern culture, which had already begun in the nineteenth century, was intensified after the 1890s. This could be seen most clearly in the rising influence of the patriot symbol. During the nineteenth century the region's culture had been dominated by a native, Protestant middle class that celebrated self-reliant, small-scale capitalists as model citizens. This cultural construction reflected the belief of middle-class leaders that they had been responsible for the region's growth and an attempt by them to reform the behavior of thousands of immigrants whom they felt did not share their commitment to self-improvement and progress. These leaders and the communities in which they lived were certainly proud of the patriotism of their ancestors, but they saw all that they had built grounded ultimately in the rugged individualism which they believed they and their pioneer ancestors had exhibited.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.

I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

Orange County encompasses a large area that has a lot of Alkaline Trio fans.

I'm from Detroit, but Chicago is a second home for me.

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.

Midwesterners make good audiences.

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.

I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.

L.A. is cool because its still got the beaches and stuff like Sydney. But I can't get Tim Tams. They're, like, these chocolate biscuits with chocolate on the inside and on the outside, and they are the best.

I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.