Accents Quotes · Page 5

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of…

— Malik Yoba

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

— Leslie Nielsen

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

— Kayla Ewell

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

— Eddie Redmayne

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

— Kayla Ewell

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

— Denis O'Hare

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

— Kevin Costner

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

— David Suchet

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,…

— Lee Strasberg

I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was…

— Sharlto Copley

I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd…

— Holly Black

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the…

— Rachael Ray

For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I…

— Deborah Kerr

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing…

— Stefon Harris

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man…

— Andrew Carnegie

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike…

— Deanna Raybourn

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak…

— Hong Chau

I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a…

— Rich Fulcher

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether…

— John le Carre

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music…

— Al Jarreau

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about…

— Tibor Kalman

Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But…

— Julianne Moore

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

— Kevin Zegers

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

— Robert Benchley

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

— Penelope Cruz

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

— Abigail Breslin

When someone with a rural accent says, I don't know much about politics, zip up your pockets.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

— Sarah Lancashire

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

— Trevor Noah

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

— Anonymous

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

— Amy Chua

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.

— Paris Hilton

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

— William Jones

When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

— Hannah Simone

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

— Jimmy Carr

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

— Mia Wasikowska

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

— Joe Biden