Accents Quotes · Page 9

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

— Ellen Page

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

— Fernando Lamas

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

— Steve Fowler

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my…

— Malik Yoba

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

— Sarita Choudhury

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

— Karen Bardsley

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took…

— Idris Elba

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

— Warren MacKenzie

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak…

— Summer Phoenix

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want…

— Sting

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from…

— Nicki Minaj

I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was…

— Larry the Cable Guy

My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the…

— King Louie

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…

— Bill Roorbach

To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history…

— James Gibbons

What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It's…

— Killian Scott

What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts…

— Nancy Giles

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket.…

— Max Greenfield

Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear…

— Charles Brent

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

— Billy Idol

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

— Vera Wang

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

— Stephanie Perkins

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

— Anonymous

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

— India de Beaufort

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

— Ewan McGregor

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

— Steve Valentine

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

— Gemma Arterton

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

— James Nesbitt

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four…

— Lake Bell

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

— Bill Maher

You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.

— Joe Biden

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

— Diane Kruger

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

— Grace Jones

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

— Michael Socha

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

— Eva Mendes