Accent Quotes · Page 10

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

— La Rouchefoucauld

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

— Ewan McGregor

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

— Josh Holloway

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

— Sam Heughan

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Jim Norton

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it…

— Toks Olagundoye

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

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts…

— Rod Lurie

Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall…

— Joe Cole

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that…

— Roman Polanski

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if…

— Ben Chaplin

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

— Jamie Bell

I've heard every pronunciation ever, but the worst was when I was in New York for a radio show at some restaurant.…

— Karch Kiraly

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of…

— Jason Mitchell

“I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing. I love listening to his…

— Stephanie Perkins

My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak…

— Hong Chau

“It’s like I’m suddenly a hormonally charged teenager or living in a bad romance novel: I suddenly can’t stop myself from noticing…

— Lisa Daily

I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a…

— Rich Fulcher

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

Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been…

— Ronny Chieng

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue.…

— Henry Cavill

I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

— Damian Lewis

Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.

— Eric Wareheim

It's my biggest advantage with girls - I'm going to try to keep my accent as much as can.

— Cody Simpson

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

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

— Jane Seymour

I've never lost my Scots accent but my son has a classic British accent.

— David Coulthard

I'll never understand why British people lose their accent when they sing.

— Anonymous

“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Anonymous

Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.

— Bianca Lawson

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

— Anonymous

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

— Nico Santos

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

— Rajiv Menon

It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors.

— Ryan Cartwright

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

— Cillian Murphy

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

— Rebel Wilson