Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent.… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
I usually learn a specific accent and it stays that way. We have so many American and English films in Australia that… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid.… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I've always been good at accents and different types of theatre, and I don't have a snobbery about popular stuff. As you're… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In this case, I don't know why they [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] thought I would be a good lavash wrap or… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday,… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. — Gilles Marini Copy Share Image
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image