Maureen Johnson Quotes

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

There's something about Southern characters.

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.

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.

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.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

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.

Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I'm Southern to the bone.

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

I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

The crowds have always been known to be pretty loud and wild in the South.

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 can I say? I'm a Southern girl.

My voice is obviously real southern - I automatically lean country.

We're just Southern people.

I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.