Michael Moore Quotes

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!

In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.

I love the Midwest accent.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

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

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

The idea that you would not only exercise but that you would enjoy it is very difficult for me to understand. I just hate it.

Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.

I do know one thing: you Midwesterners are laughers.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

I'm too Southern.

I went on a diet after 'Daawat-e-Ishq.' It was tough to resist eating because we were in Lucknow and Hyderabad, and the food over there is amazing.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.