An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing. — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“It’s the accent. Women always swoon for an accent.” I rolled my eyes. “And does the accent work on you?” — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that. — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English. — Roberto De Vicenzo Copy Share Image
Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not… — Carlos Ponce Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and… — Marsha Thomason Copy Share Image
I've been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says 'We can't, it's the accent thing.'… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“I was sure that if he didn’t have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad… — Goran Visnjic Copy Share Image
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
“Most people in Atlanta don't have an accent. It's pretty urban. A lot of people speak gangsta, though," I add jokingly. "Fo'… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
