My UNCLE is a SOUTHERN planter. He's an undertaker in ALABAMA.

When you're in a MOVIE with Will Ferrell, well, it's time to at least sometimes throw the SCRIPT away. And that character in 'Talladega NIGHTS' I found a LOT easier to kind of riff with because I related to it more, those kind of Southern, almost rednecky guys. That's a CULTURE that I'm familiar with, that makes sense for me to spew.

The Southern SLAVE WOULD OBEY God in respect to marriage, and also to the READING and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

I have wonderful memories of growing up on a farm with chickens running all AROUND in the SMALL SOUTHERN Italian town of Torre del Greco.

I am just so proud to be ABLE to take my NAPA car, my NAPA Toyota, to the WEST Coast and RACE in front of the fans in Southern CALIFORNIA.

Southern CALIFORNIA, where the AMERICAN DREAM CAME too true.

I'm SOUTHERN to the BONE.

Everybody KNOWS that from a NATIONAL SECURITY standpoint we NEED to secure our SOUTHERN border.

Well, I'll TELL you, one of things I'm PROUD of is for SOMEONE from SOUTHERN California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

When I was 7, we bought a BIG HOUSE at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern CALIFORNIA.

I've been PROUD to call Southern NEVADA home for more than 35 years and it's been an incredible place to work, raise a FAMILY, care for my parents and volunteer in the COMMUNITY.

Southern FLORIDA ain't EVEN Florida for REAL. It's LIKE New York, CHICAGO, the beaches.

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the STATE. It was like growing up in the Great DEPRESSION from the stories I hear people TELL. Everybody was poor and so we didn't KNOW that we were any different from anybody else.

Martin LUTHER King Jr. was a SOUTHERN, CONSERVATIVE minister who believed in the American promise. His DREAM was patriotic and traditional. Family, work, self-determination and religion comprised his CORE values.

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.