Jayma Mays Quotes

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

There's something about Southern characters.

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.

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

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 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.

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.

I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

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 Southern to the bone.

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

I was just a girl from Alabama.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

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.

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.