Jake Peavy Quotes

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

The South is the only part of the country that has been defeated; the rest of the country, unlike most people in the world have never been conquered. But the Southerners have …. The South is the soul of America.

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

The people in southern Georgia are tough.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

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'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

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.

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.

The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.