Accents Quotes · Page 4

I'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

— Kayla Ewell

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to…

— Ashley Jensen

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

— Wallace Stevens

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

— Erica Schroeder

“There's an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England”

— Ben Crystal David Crystal

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

— William Shakespeare

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

— Marshall McLuhan

I work with quite a lot of black comedians and I don't think they think doing accents is racist at all.

— Paul Whitehouse

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't…

— Salma Hayek

Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t…

— Richelle Mead

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't…

— Sarita Choudhury

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but…

— Jodie Foster

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

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

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

— Sofia Vergara

To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history…

— James Gibbons

I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in…

— Chloe Pirrie

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up…

— Salma Hayek

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost…

— Trevor Noah

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that…

— Ioan Gruffudd

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

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

— John Lennon

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

— Rebecca Front

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

— Alan Rickman

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

— Ruth Negga

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

— Julie Benz

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

— Jeremy Irvine

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn

— Jaime King

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

— Gloria Swanson

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

— Jimmy Carr

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

— Colum McCann

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

— Wilmer Valderrama

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

— Joe Biden

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

— Mia Wasikowska

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

— Christina Stead