Accents Quotes · Page 4

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

— Zedd

Come to think of it, I have really travelled across accents.

— Sanya Malhotra

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

— Matthew Rhys

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

— Quindon Tarver

My college roommate must be able to handle my random British accents.

— Anonymous

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

— Cillian Murphy

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

— Rajiv Menon

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime…

— Hector Berlioz

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they…

— Anonymous

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and…

— Nick Park

But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life.…

— Gregory David Roberts

Accents aren't accents, they're language It's almost like a code. Because that's the key to who you are: it's how you express…

— Rege-Jean Page

“Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was…

— Robert Lane Greene

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

— David Tennant

Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

“The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit. The hair, the skin tone and the bridgework would…

— Douglas Adams

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue.…

— Henry Cavill

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those…

— Cornel West

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.…

— Miley Cyrus

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,…

— John Oliver

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

— Nico Santos

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

— Kelly Macdonald

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

— Jane Seymour

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

— Anne Rice

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

— Anonymous

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

— Alessandro Nivola

That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

— Jim Norton

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

— Ewan McGregor

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

— Joan Rivers

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

— Josh Holloway

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

— G-Eazy

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian…

— Anthony LaPaglia

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

— Horace

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

— Paloma Faith

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

— Rachel Bilson