Reynolds Price Quotes

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.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

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.

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

I'm too Southern.

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.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

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

I'm from Alabama. I'm not rude.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie… I missed the South since I've been gone!

We're just Southern people.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in 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.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

I'm a southern gentleman.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.