Leslie Jordan Quotes

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 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 still true to my Southern roots.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

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.

We're just Southern people.

I'm too Southern.

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

There's something about Southern characters.

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

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with 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 Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

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 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.

You know, I love the South.

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.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

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