Accents Quotes · Page 6

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

— Anonymous

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

— Jane Seymour

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

— Kelly Macdonald

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

— Cillian Murphy

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

— Rajiv Menon

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

— Nico Santos

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

— Quindon Tarver

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've…

— Daniel Tammet

If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish…

— Sarah Bernhardt

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I…

— Olivier Martinez

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow…

— David Tennant

The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems…

— Owen Wilson

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom…

— Craig Ferguson

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though…

— Roselyn Sanchez

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated…

— Gary Oldman

I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton…

— Joanna Page

“She shook Neil's hand. "I'm Rose." "Neil," he said, with a formal bow of his head. "It's a great honor to meet…

— Richelle Mead

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said,…

— Maureen Johnson

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on…

— Poppy Montgomery

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream…

— Cornel West

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…

— Ivan Illich

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.…

— Robbie Williams

My college roommate must be able to handle my random British accents.

— Anonymous

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

— Josh Holloway

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

— Ewan McGregor

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

— Joan Rivers

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me…

— Daniel Radcliffe

That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

— Jim Norton

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

— Alessandro Nivola

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

— Chuck Inglish

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

— Rachel Bilson

“The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.”

— La Rouchefoucauld

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

— Naveen Andrews

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

— Matthew Rhys

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

— Zedd

Come to think of it, I have really travelled across accents.

— Sanya Malhotra

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

— Niall Horan