“I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.” KindSometimesCharacterGrowing UpSawsGrowingTvsGrewGayGrew UpTownsConservativeAnnoyingSmall TownObnoxiousFlamboyant Author:Chris Colfer
“I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.” ThinkingRealStoriesFeelingsLosesCommonKnowingChildhoodMinesGrewGrew UpTownsSouthRevelationsSmall TownHarperMockingbirdKill A MockingbirdGrowing Up In A Small Town Author:Chris Crutcher
“It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.” SaidPainGrowing UpGrowingEatingTownsErasObsessedSmall TownGrapesWalletsMy BoyfriendLeonardoHampshireNew HampshireGrowing PainsGrowing Up In A Small Town Author:Eliza Coupe
“Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.” TodayGirlGrowing UpGrowingTownsPacksTeenageSmall TownOklahomaTeenage GirlGrowing Up In A Small Town Author:Ally Carter
“It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.” ThinkingWayCertainActorsInterestingTownsSmall TownDouble Life Author:Bill Condon
“I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.” PeopleFacesLyingGrewGayGrew UpStrongerTownsFranceSmall TownGay Friend Author:Guillaume Canet
“I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsNightBitsFourWeekShareStrangeLittle BitTownsDinnerInterviewsSmall Town Author:John Corbett
“I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.” GirlTownsBeatenSmall Town Author:Erica Durance
“I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.” LooksI CanCareersNiceGrewGrew UpMy FamilyTownsRaisesLos AngelesSmall Town Author:Patrick Dempsey
“To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.” WantDreamKidsTeamWake UpTownsSmall TownRepresentingPitchingMiami Author:Gio Gonzalez
“But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.” PeopleArtistStuffCitiesTownsNeighborSmall Town Author:Genevieve Gorder
“I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.” ThinkingWantedActingAdultsTownsSmall TownRecognise Author:Joan Allen
“I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.” HomeTownsStudiosSmall Town Author:Sergio Aragones
“Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.” PeopleWantedDesireCitiesSituationGrowing UpGrowingLandMiddleTownsTablesIncrediblesFortunateSmall TownAppreciativeMeeting New PeopleLess FortunateMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Garrett Hedlund
“For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.” KnowsMayCountryStoriesFeelingsHomeMotherSongNumbersTownsCellsSmall TownNashvilleCountry Love Author:Garrett Hedlund
“I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.” WellsRealStatesSchoolCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTheaterTownsGood ThingsSmall TownPennsylvaniaMovie Theater Author:Keith Haring
“I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.” UsedNightHouseMiddleCarMomMy FriendsTownsStealingDesertSmall TownSneakMiddle Of The Night Author:Mark Hoppus
“I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingProudGayTownsWho You AreBeing YourselfAwkwardBe ProudSmall TownPennsylvania Author:Carson Kressley
“When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.” WantTownsParisSmall TownUkraine Author:Olga Kurylenko