I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.
I think with a comedian, when you get to the point of a greatest hits, it's kind of an acknowledgment that you've been doing stand-up a long time, which not very many people do.
People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.
If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.
People are like, Hey, Jeff, lemme tell you... I'm like, Hold on, let me get a pen and a piece of paper.
All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.
Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.
Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.
I talked to Larry the Cable Guy the other day. Larry's made more money than 10 people should ever make in a lifetime. He was excited because he'd gone over to the livestock auction and bought 20 new feeder pigs.
You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.
I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.