Cleo Moore Quotes

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

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.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

There's something about Southern characters.

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.

I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

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

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

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

My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

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.