Accent Quotes · Page 8

I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.

— Fernandinho

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

— Stephanie Perkins

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

— Maxine Peake

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

— Sarita Choudhury

The more it looks like home, the more I feel like people are understanding my accent.

— Tyler Childers

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

— Billy Idol

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

— Eva Mendes

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

— Gemma Arterton

“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

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

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to…

— Kim Dickens

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be…

— Marilyn vos Savant

I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone…

— Skepta

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become…

— Edwin Newman

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks…

— Stephen Mangan

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

The American accent is a little bit tricky. We grew up with American TV shows, so we've had a lot of exposure…

— Antony Starr

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening…

— Guy Pearce

I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand,…

— Lake Bell

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. It kind of removes…

— Ellen Page

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor.…

— Russell Crowe

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that.…

— Steph McGovern

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of…

— Brendan Gleeson

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the…

— Laurie Graham

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

— Diane Kruger

“She's got an accent like yours, right? Like honey on a biscuit?”

— Edward W. Robertson

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

— Huma Qureshi

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Steve Valentine

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

A lot of people pretend to be me if they have a Derry accent and curly hair.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare.

— Joanna Page

After 3 months of trying to learn a southern accent, it still comes out Jamaican

— Meller

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

— Lake Bell

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

— Heath Ledger

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

— Sonya Walger

I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish…

— Emily Ratajkowski

Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!

— Zoe Bell

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

— Genevieve O'Reilly