Accents Quotes · Page 7

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

— Oliver Sacks

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

— Ellen Page

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“He and I speak the same language...we just have different accents.”

— Jenn Cooksey

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

— Carter Jenkins

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

— Elvis Costello

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

— Austin Butler

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the…

— Eugene Ionesco

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear…

— Alex Borstein

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to…

— Mia Wasikowska

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in…

— Jacki Weaver

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops…

— Kirk Hammett

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents…

— Anonymous

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest…

— John Singer Sargent

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed…

— Joseph Addison

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent…

— Nick Nolte

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year…

— Jennifer Ehle

I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk…

— Anna Torv

“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent…

— Peter Hitchens

The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern…

— Kate DiCamillo

I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the…

— Lennox Lewis

I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my…

— Malik Yoba

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

— Fernando Lamas

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

— Steve Fowler

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

— Janet McTeer

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

— Henry Wotton

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

— Sam Neill

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

— Mark Twain

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

— Emily Dickinson

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out…

— Jeremy Renner

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

— Ewan McGregor

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

— Steve Valentine

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

— Anonymous

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

— India de Beaufort