Accents Quotes · Page 9

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

— Desi Arnaz

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

— George MacKay

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

— Charlotte Bronte

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

— Ray Stevenson

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've…

— Brion James

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

— Heinrich Heine

American accents often sound much more confident than British ones.

— Rebecca Front

I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig…

— Neil Gaiman

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to…

— Stewart Copeland

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if…

— Carl Sandburg

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of…

— Salma Hayek

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American…

— Michael Caine

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in…

— Emma Watson

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

— William Shakespeare

It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the…

— Freddie Highmore

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with…

— The Weeknd

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at…

— Robbie Coltraine

Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time,…

— Karen Marie Moning

My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and…

— Roselyn Sanchez

Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four…

— Margot Robbie

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

— Alessia Cara

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

— Princess Nokia

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

— Ricky Whittle

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in…

— Cassandra Peterson

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

— John Edgar Wideman

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

— Stephen Fry

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

— Jamie Bamber

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

— Albert Finney

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

— Michael Caine

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

— Joseph Conrad

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

— James Hunter

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

— Malik Yoba

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

— Harvey Dunn

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted…

— Benjamin Bratt