Peyton Reed Quotes

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

New York is in my soul.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.

I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.