Southern gentility is evocative to me.
Professional Southerners sicken me.
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
I'm from Alabama. I'm not rude.
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.
In Nashville, if people don't like someone, they say, 'I don't really like him,' then add, 'bless his heart.' In Hollywood, they kind of leave that last part off.
Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.
Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!
I'm a southern gentleman.
I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.
In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
