Accents Quote by Cassandra Peterson

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC…

— Steph McGovern

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

— Lawrence Welk

Everybody be like, 'You got an accent.' And I look at them like, 'Damn, I thought I talked normal!'

— GloRilla

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour…

— John Oliver

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

— John Ashbery

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk…

— John Lennon

I remember believing that I just wouldn't get work, so I just consciously had to practise other accents, but I enjoyed doing it.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

— Bishop Briggs

The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

— Kaya Scodelario

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become…

— Michael Caine

People think that I live in England and have a British accent.

— Rich Fulcher

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I…

— Eileen Myles