Accent Quotes
402 quotes by 360 authors
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I…
— Amy Adams
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came…
— Christian Bale
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the…
— Eric Bana
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have…
— Joe Biden
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack…
— Orlando Bloom
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If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's…
— Emily Blunt
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
— Erma Bombeck
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my…
— Bill Bryson
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made…
— Nicolas Cage
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
— Michael Caine
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain…
— Michael Caine
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Laughter has no foreign accent.
— Paul B. Lowney
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it…
— Charles Brent
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Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special…
— Ivan Illich
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Who Wrote These Accent Quotes
360 authors contributed a total of 402 Accent Quotes, led by these top contributors: