Accent Quotes

402 quotes by 360 authors

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether… — Johnnie Cochran
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all… — Stewart Copeland
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. — Anita Diament
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. — Dinesh D'Souza
I personally am not conscious of my accent. — Jared Diamond
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes… — Viola Davis
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school… — Jennifer Ehle
I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and… — Ioan Gruffudd
I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to… — Brendan Gleeson
I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want. — Abigail Breslin
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set. — Alice Englert
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done… — Idris Elba
My accent depends on whom I'm around. — Claire Forlani
Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my… — Christopher Heyerdahl
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators,… — Chris Hemsworth
Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just… — Jane Horrocks
I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. — Josh Holloway
I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent. — Jeremy Irvine
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did… — John Mahoney
I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me. — Michelle Ryan

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