Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. — Maria Grazia Cucinotta Copy Share Image
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character. — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how… — Jack McBrayer Copy Share Image
Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
