Accents Quotes · Page 7

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

— Marshall McLuhan

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've…

— Brion James

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

— Charlotte Bronte

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

— Ray Stevenson

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

— George MacKay

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

— Desi Arnaz

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

— Dorothy Malone

All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and…

— Andrea Tantaros

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with…

— Cyrus Broacha

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On 'Vikings,' we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us…

— Travis Fimmel

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now…

— Hunter Hayes

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their…

— Owen Wilson

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I…

— Salma Hayek

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was…

— Rob Sheffield

There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can…

— Rah Digga

I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language…

— Trevor Noah

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or…

— Benjamin Rush

I find it terribly distracting in movies when people do accents, I must say, unless it's terribly serious and the story is…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I…

— Rob Lowe

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated…

— Alan Cooper

I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding…

— Joseph Campbell

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

— Melanie Lynskey

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

— Larry the Cable Guy

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

— Lupe Fiasco

“Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn’t miss a word.”

— Heather Davis

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

— Alice Englert

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

— Jennifer Ellison

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

— Michelle Ryan

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

— Neil Warnock

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

— Anthony Bourdain

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

— Michael Caine

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

— Harvey Dunn

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

— Malik Yoba

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

— James Hunter

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

— Joseph Conrad

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

— Michael Caine

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

— Albert Finney