Alan Ball Quotes

You know, I love the South.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

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

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.

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

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'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

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

We're just Southern people.

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

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 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.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

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

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

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.