Accents Quotes · Page 8

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

— Jamie Bamber

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

— John Edgar Wideman

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

— Stephen Fry

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in…

— Cassandra Peterson

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

— Ricky Whittle

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

— Princess Nokia

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

— Alessia Cara

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically…

— Rachel Johnson

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she…

— Albert Finney

I get recognised on the phone because it's harder to cover up your voice than your head. You can put a hat…

— Iain Stirling

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real…

— Robert Pattinson

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I…

— Vicky McClure

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the…

— Stephen Graham

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all…

— Maisie Williams

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of…

— Ben Barnes

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up…

— Salma Hayek

I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in…

— Chloe Pirrie

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that…

— Ioan Gruffudd

When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost…

— Trevor Noah

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Don't you have class today? (Kyrian) Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick) (He cleared his…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is…

— John Crowe Ransom

I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red…

— Colleen Atwood

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

— Jimmy O. Yang

American accents often sound much more confident than British ones.

— Rebecca Front

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

— Heinrich Heine

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

— Sam Neill

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

— Janet McTeer

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

— Henry Wotton

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out…

— Jeremy Renner

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

— Emily Dickinson

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

— Mark Twain

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

— Austin Butler

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

— Carter Jenkins

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

— Elvis Costello

“He and I speak the same language...we just have different accents.”

— Jenn Cooksey

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

— Leonardo DiCaprio