Accents Quotes · Page 6

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anonymous

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

— Quindon Tarver

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

— Jessie James Decker

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

— Rajiv Menon

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've…

— Daniel Tammet

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

— Mia Wasikowska

People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within…

— Esther McVey

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though…

— Roselyn Sanchez

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom…

— Craig Ferguson

The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems…

— Owen Wilson

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow…

— David Tennant

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to…

— Mia Wasikowska

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything…

— Robert Pattinson

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream…

— Cornel West

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…

— Ivan Illich

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on…

— Poppy Montgomery

“She shook Neil's hand. "I'm Rose." "Neil," he said, with a formal bow of his head. "It's a great honor to meet…

— Richelle Mead

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said,…

— Maureen Johnson

I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk…

— Anna Torv

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

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Ewan McGregor

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

— Josh Holloway

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

— Alessandro Nivola

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

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

— Jim Norton

My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

— Naveen Andrews

“The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.”

— La Rouchefoucauld

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

— Rachel Bilson

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

— Chuck Inglish

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

— Sanya Malhotra

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

— Zedd

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

— Matthew Rhys

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

— Niall Horan