Accent Quote by Ashley Bell

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

— Alex Borstein

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

— Stefflon Don

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

— Amyra Dastur

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

— Karen Bardsley

My dad has a half-Australian and half-Scottish accent and a lot of people struggle to understand him.

— Megan Anderson

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have…

— Christopher Walken

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

— Lola Kirke

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have…

— John Key

In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His intonation, his…

— Michael Rosen

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe.…

— Rege-Jean Page

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

— Anonymous