My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when… — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras… — Douglas Preston 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
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 Copy Share Image
I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out… — John Green Copy Share Image
The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson 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
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
“My gosh, that voice... deep and soft, with the hint of an accent. British, maybe? I was definitely a sucker for accents.” — Kristi Cook Copy Share Image
As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a… — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image