Accent Quotes · Page 12

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

— Robert Benchley

I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.

— Karan Soni

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

— Kevin Zegers

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

— Michael Caine

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

— Janet McTeer

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school…

— Freddie Stroma

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

— Abigail Breslin

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

— Lawrence Welk

My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural…

— Adam Rayner

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I…

— Ashley Jensen

It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it…

— Iwan Rheon

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all…

— Jennifer Harrison

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me…

— DJ Qualls

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of…

— Frances Trollope

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read…

— Emily Mortimer

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based…

— Jenny Zhang

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used…

— Ben Mendelsohn

What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It's…

— Killian Scott

When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost…

— Trevor Noah

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that…

— Raul Labrador

[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I…

— Rob Lowe

“I want to forewarn you,” Bryon says seriously. “It’s very possible that I may start talking with a southern accent.” “That’s all…

— Dark Calling

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role…

— Ryan Cartwright

They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a…

— Trevor Noah

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

— Orson Scott Card

People think that I live in England and have a British accent.

— Rich Fulcher

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

— Sharlto Copley

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

— Jamie Blackley

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

— Adrian Smith

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

— Salma Hayek

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

— Sean Connery

I never had an accent. Oregon... there's no discernible accent, there's no discernible anything.

— Cole Escola

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn

— Jaime King

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

— Jeremy Irvine

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

— Jimmy Carr

In fact, I was very conscious of my accent and used to hesitate in talking to people.

— Amrapali Gupta

My British accent often made me close my throat and sing from all the wrong places.

— Jen Ledger

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

— Mia Wasikowska

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

— Amyra Dastur