Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But… — Lauren Bacall 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
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be… — Sundra Oakley Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent. — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy … In ninth grade she was… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent… — Nick Nolte 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
If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image