Accent Quotes · Page 9

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.

— Alan Tudyk

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

— Chelsea Handler

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of…

— Steph McGovern

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

— Ainsley Earhardt

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

— Michelle Dockery

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.

— Emma Corrin

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

— Bill Pullman

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There…

— Archie Panjabi

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

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends…

— Caroline Winberg

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on…

— Tanit Phoenix

I think the way I speak is probably a combination of many things. First and foremost, I am married to a Brit…

— Dorit Kemsley

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

— Diane Ladd

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything…

— Chris Hemsworth

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice.…

— Christopher Plummer

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If…

— Juno Temple

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close,…

— Andie MacDowell

I think it's somewhere in my head, in my travel space, and it just comes out. It's a visual thing that happens…

— Grace Jones

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.'…

— Stuart Scott

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know…

— Cheryl Ladd

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found…

— Adhir Kalyan

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

— Jimmy O. Yang

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

— John Oliver

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

— Anonymous

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

— James Franco

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

— Gary Carr

“People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.”

— Brandon Sanderson

To me, Scotty is 99 percent James Doohan, and 1 percent accent.

— James Doohan

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New…

— Jake T. Austin

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

— Zedd

“Let the contract state that I want the Mr Darcy accent once a week!”

— Anne Eliot

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

— Oliver Sacks

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

— Cheech Marin

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

— Niall Horan

“There’s nothing like TV when it comes to eroding a regional accent.”

— Stephen King

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

— C. C. H. Pounder