It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall… — Joe Cole Copy Share Image
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world,… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I’m mesmerized by the way he speaks—New Orleans is pronounced N’awlins. When he says backyard, it’s backyaaad. It’s the kind of voice… — Lisa Daily Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this.… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
“In the uproar, the confusion of accents and inflections how will you hear me when I open my mouth? Look for me,… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a… — Katheryn Winnick Copy Share Image
His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans,… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image