I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning… — Jaime King Copy Share Image
Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall… — Joe Cole Copy Share Image
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can… — Rah Digga Copy Share Image
I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge,… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me,… — Nell Hudson Copy Share Image
Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because… — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't:… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don’t understand her… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Just as there are accents in speech, there are regional accents in sign. People from the South sign slower than people in… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent… — Mary Stuart Masterson Copy Share Image
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating.… — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
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