Willam Belli Quotes

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

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

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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.

What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.

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.

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 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.

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I'm not from there.

Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.

I'm from Georgia and grew up eating Chick-fil-A. I'm obsessed with all forms of fried chicken, like chicken briskets and chicken sandwiches.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those are the things I've had to cut back on.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.