How Y'all Doing? Quotes

“Our parents did the best they could with the light they had to see with.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I think our dreams are what sustain us in hard times. Dreams are what keep us childlike. I love that they can grow and expand as we grow and expand.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“My mind is like a bad neighborhood. Honey, you do not want to go up there alone.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Why is it that we love to drag all that baggage from childhood with us? We heave it dutifully. We haul it everywhere we go. And we pull it out at the drop of a hat for all to see. Nope, we are not going to let go of all that baggage.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I suppose someone had tossed the puppy out of the car, since we were in the middle of nowhere, too far out for a puppy to get to on her own. Who on Earth would do such a thing?! People like that need to burn in hell, I tell you that much.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Honey, if embellishment were a sin, I would be sitting in a roaring fire with Beelzebub right now.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I was not the butchest little boy to come down the pike, that's for sure. But I was a joyful child. I was fun to be around. And I had learned to be really funny. I learned to be funny to keep the bullies at bay.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“There is an old Southern expression: “I don’t got a dog in that fight.” But I immediately realized that was never going to be the case when it comes to standing up to racial injustice. We all “got a dog in that fight.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Honey, we gotta be able to laugh at ourselves.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“But recovery is really about learning to live, one day at a time, without the use of anything that affects us from the neck up.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I think the greatest gift my mother gave me was my love of reading.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I'm more along the lines of a Dolly Parton. What you see is what you get!”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I want to live a life where no one can say a bad word about me. [...] Folks certainly may not like me, but they certainly will not be able to denigrate me”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Now, please bear in mind. In 1958, my career Army Daddy scoured Chattanooga, Tennessee in a freak snowstorm to find his beloved 3-year old son a bride doll.

Okay, full disclosure: I made up the snowstorm. I have no idea why I felt the need to add a snowstorm to embellish this story, when the story is a big deal on its own.

A man's man like my daddy, hitting the toy stores looking for a bride doll for his son in 1958? No. snowstorm. needed.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Years ago, I had been told by Barbara Miller, the legendary casting director, that when I died, on my tombstone should read "Here lies the other way to go.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I was so lucky to have parents who fostered all my imaginary goings-on. I think it is what has made me a good writer and actor today. I am a superb pretender!”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“In my travels over the years, I have always tried to read books by authors from the area I am visiting.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“I had won an Emmy Award back in 2006 for my portrayal of Beverley Leslie. When the show was rebooted for three brand-new seasons, I was so excited to be playing Beverley again.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out against systemic racism.

That was the first time it really occurred to me that I had a voice on this new platform.

I had a strong voice. A voice that people wanted to hear...There is an old Southern expression: "I don't got a dog in that fight." But I immediately realized that was never going to be the case when it comes to standing up to racial injustice. We all "got a dog in that fight.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived