Accents Quotes · Page 6

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me…

— Daniel Radcliffe

That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

— Jim Norton

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

— Alessandro Nivola

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

— Anne Rice

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

— Anonymous

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

— Jane Seymour

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

— Kelly Macdonald

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

— Nico Santos

My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is…

— Jerry Seinfeld

My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the…

— King Louie

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in…

— Jacki Weaver

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents…

— Anonymous

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops…

— Kirk Hammett

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I…

— Francois Arnaud

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed…

— Joseph Addison

I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in…

— Nasim Pedrad

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very…

— Emily Blunt

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it…

— Sting

I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any…

— Aneurin Bevan

I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how…

— Jack McBrayer

Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets…

— Signe Baumane

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle…

— Karen Abbott

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd…

— Martin Henderson

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

— Cillian Murphy

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

— Rajiv Menon

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

— Quindon Tarver

My college roommate must be able to handle my random British accents.

— Anonymous

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

— Matthew Rhys

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

— Zedd

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

— Niall Horan

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

— Oliver Sacks

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

“The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.”

— La Rouchefoucauld

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

— Rachel Bilson

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

— Chuck Inglish

My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

— Naveen Andrews

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my…

— Malik Yoba