While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York… — Nikki DeLoach Copy Share Image
What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is,… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners,… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image