Character Quote by Anson Mount

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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

— Reynolds Price

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

— John Shelton Reed

I realized early on that it was important to have those values, a morality and ethics that come with being Southern girl. The way…

— Sarah Shahi

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

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…

— Natalie Zea

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

— Carrie Preston

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

— John Oliver