Austin Texas Quotes:

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Texas, Austin, Feels, Austin Texas

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Crush, War, Texas, West Berlin, Austin Texas

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

- Brent Musburger

topic: Baseball, Football, Team, Major League Baseball, Winning Football

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

- Owen Wilson

source: Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

topic: Brother, College, Texas, Short Films, Austin Texas

When I initially met with Robert I was just so excited to meet the guy. I was able to go to Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas and just hanging out was fantastic. Working on this took up all of my weekends while I was shooting Community. It was crazy, but again, no regrets.

- Joel McHale

source: "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

topic: Troublemaker, Austin Texas