Accents Quotes · Page 5

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

— Orson Scott Card

People think that I live in England and have a British accent.

— Rich Fulcher

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

— Sharlto Copley

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

— Salma Hayek

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

— John Oliver

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

— Anonymous

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday…

— Katie Leclerc

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the…

— David Arquette

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches…

— Keira Knightley

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening…

— Dominic Purcell

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act,…

— David Carradine

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I…

— Olivier Martinez

If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all…

— Ben Mendelsohn

You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night…

— Bernie Siegel

Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets…

— Signe Baumane

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very…

— Emily Blunt

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it…

— Sting

I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton…

— Joanna Page

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely,…

— Tom Wolfe

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd…

— Martin Henderson

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle…

— Karen Abbott

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

— James Franco

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

— Gary Carr

“People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.”

— Brandon Sanderson

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.

— Alan Tudyk

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

— Chelsea Handler

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

— Chelsea Handler

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

— Dinesh D'Souza

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

— Lake Bell

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

— Mads Mikkelsen

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

— Heath Ledger

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

— Henry Cho

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

— Hector Hugh Munro

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

If you do certain accents it's considered racist, but I'm not convinced it is.

— Paul Whitehouse

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

— Jane Seymour