Comedy Quote by Larry Wilmore

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from…

— Larry Wilmore

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not…

— Garth Ennis

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

When I wrote 'Southern Baptist Sissies,' that was the first time that I really ventured out into pure drama with themes where there was…

— Del Shores

As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike…

— Dana Loesch

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found…

— Victoria Jackson

I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

— Patrick Wilson

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

— Vance Havner

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances…

— Boris Kodjoe

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek