About Quote by Boots Riley

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a…

— Chris Parnell

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than…

— Bill Bryson

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of…

— Sarah Lancashire

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of…

— Jennifer Harrison

If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb…

— Jake Peavy

As northerners, we use our mouths so much to speak, and that in itself is weird.

— Aimee Lou Wood

I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally.

— Katie Lowes

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the…

— Elena Roger

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles…

— Kim Dickens

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

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

I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child…

— Gina Bellman