Accents Quotes · Page 6

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

— Wilmer Valderrama

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

— Colum McCann

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

— Julie Benz

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Jaime King

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

— Jeremy Irvine

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

— Salma Hayek

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total…

— Hilary Mantel

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man…

— Dylan Thomas

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense… In MEN... a unique nose... or…

— Emmy Rossum

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but…

— Joseph Conrad

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really…

— Christopher Guest

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't…

— Barbara Walters

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying…

— Lake Bell

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they…

— Callum Keith Rennie

We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some…

— Gordon Korman

I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm…

— Jim Cummings

At first I found it really hard using three different English accents: South African, faking the American, faking the accent required by…

— Charlize Theron

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really…

— Charlize Theron

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like,…

— Mike Myers

I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?'…

— Derek Landy

I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit…

— Johnny Depp

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

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

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

— Christina Stead

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

— Sharlto Copley

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

— Rich Fulcher

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

— Orson Scott Card

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Ben Crystal David Crystal

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

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

— Erica Schroeder

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

— Ruth Negga

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

— Alan Rickman

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

— Paul Whitehouse