My BACKGROUND is a small TOWN with no movie THEATER. So... I always pictured myself ONSTAGE. I went to acting school and learned all the SKILLS. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

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 pretty SMALL town in TEXAS, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open SPACES.

I was the weirdest kid in this small TOWN in WASHINGTON. I was the only PERSON who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn't UNDERSTAND it... They SAID I was a weirdo or that I didn't belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn't belong there.

Oil was the big BUSINESS in Tulsa and there was quite a bit of nightlife for a SMALL town. You could never make any MONEY, but you could always FIND a PLACE to play.

I'm from a small TOWN on the bottom EDGE of Mississippi, very near NEW Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has LIVED there for generations.

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.

L.A. FEELS LIKE a REALLY SMALL TOWN to me.

The dynamic is extremely SIMILAR to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, PLUS the SMALL TOWN atmosphere. It REALLY is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

I kept saying that I'd NEVER live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends MOVED out to LOS Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

The thing about a SMALL TOWN is that there are PEOPLE who just remember me as a MUSICIAN, as a high SCHOOL football player.

I'm from a small town. I THINK that's what's GOING to HELP me SUCCEED.

My dream was to be a hero in a film. I came from a small TOWN and didn't KNOW where to START. I dreamt that people would SING songs featuring me.

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.

In a small town, everyone WORKS TOGETHER and does life together, and because of that everyone takes care of each other. That's IOWA. Whether it's Des Moines or Sioux Center, Decorah or Davenport, Iowans exhibit those small-town values. They work HARD, but not so much for themselves. They're ambitious, but not at the expense of others.