Accents Quotes · Page 14

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because…

— Hector Elizondo

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't:…

— Salma Hayek

I really didn't have to work, shall we say, with "Star Trek." It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there…

— James Doohan

I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be…

— Sundra Oakley

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

— Guy Pearce

I find people interesting and I love regional accents. I love the Norfolk accent actually but I haven't heard much as I've…

— Rick Stein

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that…

— Joel Edgerton

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.…

— Miley Cyrus

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those…

— Cornel West

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue.…

— Henry Cavill

“The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit. The hair, the skin tone and the bridgework would…

— Douglas Adams

Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your…

— Yelawolf

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice…

— Lord Byron

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the…

— Toks Olagundoye

I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of…

— Danielle de Niese

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating…

— Cate Blanchett

The main thing is always try to find different voices for yourself. If you're in your car just driving somewhere you can…

— Ashly Burch

I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things,…

— Andrea Riseborough

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the…

— Dean Rusk

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to…

— Robert Carlyle

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think…

— Adam Croasdell

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you…

— Maeve Binchy

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such…

— Margot Robbie

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life.…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three…

— Odeya Rush

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent.…

— Michel Gondry

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's…

— Sinead O'Connor

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in…

— George D. Prentice

In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is…

— Diego Klattenhoff

I usually learn a specific accent and it stays that way. We have so many American and English films in Australia that…

— Mia Wasikowska

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running…

— Stephen Daldry

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can…

— Martin Yan

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in…

— Anna Paquin

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

— Catherine O'Hara

I remember believing that I just wouldn't get work, so I just consciously had to practise other accents, but I enjoyed doing…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell