I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.
I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
Being born in a small town, you have got many advantages. You get to experience so many things in life.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn’t know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn’t until I was on ‘The Tudors’ that I realised it was a possibility.
I’m from a small town. I think that’s what’s going to help me succeed.
I don’t want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
I’ve grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, ‘What would you choose?’ And I was always like, ‘I don’t know.’
Football, that’s just athletics. But in the business world – doing everything – people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
I just like country because a lot of those guys are from towns that I’m maybe from, for one. But also, I like how humble they are, and they’re genuine people, I think. I’m not saying that rappers or rock and roll, those people, aren’t. But I just feel like I get along with those guys because they’re from small town.
I love Miranda Lambert; I think she’s wonderful. I love the song ‘Love Letters’ and ‘Famous in a Small Town.’
It would be easy for someone to think growing up in a small town would be like ‘Footloose’ or something, that it would be, ‘No dancing allowed!’ all the time, but it was quite the opposite. People always got excited for me and my successes and supported me even though I was a little weirdo goofball.
A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he’d seen ‘Time Team’, he knew exactly what to do with it – he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.
Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.
I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I’ve done, and I’ve gotten to do some great supernatural stuff – ‘Teen Wolf’ and ‘The Gates’ before that – so it’s nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.
We still have community, but we don’t seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother’s down the street, they’re not in arm’s length.
Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine – 3,500 people.
Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek – it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.
When I was younger, I lived on Hawai’i, in the small town of Kohala. It was beautiful there! There were the trees and rolling green hills. It was beautiful and quaint, but at the same time, I always wanted to just venture out.
I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
I’m from a small town called Alesund in Norway.
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic – those are sort of three layers of repression.
Any institution becomes a community – whether it’s a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I’m close with my family. I’m dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I’m a man of the people. Because I feel that way.
Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.
It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
I’m from a small town where the pace of life is slow.
I’m just a kid from a small town. Not many people make it from there. Shout out to Whitnall.
I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.
I’m a kid who grew up in a small town and started acting when he was seven for no reason and got lucky. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. I feel like some people, especially child stars, act out because they don’t know how to handle the pressure.
Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.
Baba Seva – Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman – was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child.
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early ’50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.
I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn’t really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old.
‘Felicity’ was my ‘Gilmore Girls’ because I grew up in a small town.
Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town, and my sister had amazing success. It was so amazing to see my sister reach such heights.
I had a totally different upbringing, totally different background, raised in Germany, small town, now I am in London taking care of 180 kids who think they are the one percent who can make it in professional football.
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
I live in a small town so I get recognised a lot which is weird.
I’ve done four other films since ‘Submarine,’ so that’s quite cool. It’s just good to have people respect your work; I’ve never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I’m a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it’s a whole new world.
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there’s always the town gossip – ‘Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?’ So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
I grew up in a small town in the woods of Estonia, and there was not much else around me besides nature. It was stunning, but I dreamt of meeting eccentric people and going exciting places. Music became my escape. I thought if I got good enough, I could leave.
I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.
I think it’s great to grow up in a small town because you’re just dying to break loose.
Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I’m not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.
There are aspects of small town life that I really like – the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.
