Paul Rudd Quotes

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.

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

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.

A lot of people from Buffalo haven't even been outside of Buffalo. Probably 75% of Buffalo never even been in New York City. We just come from a different kind of place. You just have to be from there to kind of understand that.

I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

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.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.

Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody.

What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

I go to sleep at night, like, ’Am I gonna be alone forever?’

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.