Accents Quotes · Page 5

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

— Wilmer Valderrama

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

— Mia Wasikowska

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

— Jimmy Carr

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

— Alan Tudyk

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

— Chelsea Handler

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

— Chelsea Handler

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Oliver

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but…

— Jodie Foster

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't…

— Salma Hayek

Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t…

— Richelle Mead

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad…

— Max von Sydow

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I…

— Sofia Vergara

Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?” Keith asked... “you all think you’re Irish. What’s the appeal? Do you like the accent…

— Maureen Johnson

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the…

— Wallace Stevens

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

— Sofia Vergara

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on…

— Poppy Montgomery

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.…

— Robbie Williams

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year…

— Jennifer Ehle

I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk…

— Anna Torv

“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent…

— Peter Hitchens

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday…

— Katie Leclerc

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

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

— Sofia Vergara

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

— Hector Hugh Munro

If you do certain accents it's considered racist, but I'm not convinced it is.

— Paul Whitehouse

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

— Heath Ledger

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

— Lake Bell

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

— Henry Cho

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

— Josh Holloway

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

— Joan Rivers

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

— Ewan McGregor