Accents Quotes · Page 7

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

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

— Steve Fowler

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

— Fernando Lamas

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

— Ellen Page

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

— Carter Jenkins

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 begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest…

— John Singer Sargent

He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to…

— Rachel Caine

I've been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day,…

— Paul Walter Hauser

The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems…

— Owen Wilson

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow…

— David Tennant

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though…

— Roselyn Sanchez

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom…

— Craig Ferguson

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything…

— Robert Pattinson

I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton…

— Joanna Page

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely,…

— Tom Wolfe

I got cast in [Punisher: War Zone] and showed up in Montreal two days before the film started, and they said, "We…

— Julie Benz

I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become…

— Kevin McKidd

Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous.…

— Jay Leno

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the…

— Anthony Crosland

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

— Elvis Costello

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

— Austin Butler

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

— Mark Twain

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

— Jeff Foxworthy

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

— Emily Dickinson

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out…

— Jeremy Renner

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

— Henry Wotton

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

— Janet McTeer

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

— Sam Neill

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

“Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.”

— Colum McCann

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

— Eva Mendes

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

— Michael Socha

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

— Grace Jones

You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.

— Joe Biden

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

— Diane Kruger