Accent Quotes

402 quotes by 360 authors

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I… — Robert Pattinson
All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New Jersey accent in… — Robert Pattinson
'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom PÃ©rignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow… — John Green
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a… — Norman Doidge
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there — Stephen Fry
You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that… — Josh Hartnett
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on… — Leah Remini
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would… — Antonio Banderas
I have a three-piece suit. Iâ€™m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So Iâ€™m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit… — Jaime King
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think… — Marion Cotillard
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate… — Radha Mitchell
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys — Max von Sydow
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps… — Piers Morgan
For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair… — Deborah Kerr
Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb. — Wilmer Valderrama
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character. — Toni Collette
I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh… — Robbie Coltraine
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. — Barbara Walters

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