Accent Quote by Ahmet Ertegun

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake…

— Martin Yan

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of…

— Laurie Graham

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially…

— Colin Firth

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American…

— Sylvia Plath

What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite.

— Cynthia Erivo

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person…

— Jaime Murray

My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The…

— Mark Rylance

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for…

— Lucy Boynton

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

— Radha Mitchell

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

— Maya Angelou

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in…

— Anna Deavere Smith