Accent Quotes · Page 7

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

— Janet Montgomery

An accent like mine defines you regionally, but it also gives you a class identity.

— John Bishop

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

— Henry Wotton

I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.

— Naby Keita

“He had a faint accent, not quite Eurovision, not quite Bond villain.”

— Heide Goody

“Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?”

— Graham Parke

My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

— Augustus Sol Invictus

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

Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but…

— Wyatt Cenac

I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like…

— Ed Weeks

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an…

— Antonio Banderas

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the…

— Rebecca Mader

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different…

— David Tennant

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American…

— Guy Pearce

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

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them…

— Chris Bohjalian

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American…

— Audra McDonald

I'm obsessed with how people talk! Accents, dialects... So whenever I go someplace where an accent is extremely distinct - Minneapolis, New…

— Sterling K. Brown

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or…

— Margot Robbie

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home…

— Iwan Rheon

Some accents people - internationally - can't understand, also they come with baggage. London means a certain thing, Liverpool means a certain…

— Steven Knight

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English,…

— Gene Simmons

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

— Luke Evans

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

— Janet McTeer

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

— Sam Neill

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

— Djimon Hounsou

People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.

— Diego Klattenhoff

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

— Jason Mantzoukas

I have a smaller bottom lip, but in 'Wheeler,' I had a lip over my lip. It's fat, and it helped with…

— Stephen Dorff

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

— Rafael Benitez

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

— Fernando Lamas

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.

— Judy Holliday

When you've traveled the world you can speak in any accent you want.

— Dorit Kemsley

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

— Liev Schreiber

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm Noah. And i'm guessing from the accent that you're British, right ?”

— Zoe Sugg

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

— Sara Davies