Accents Quotes
415 Accents quotes by 359 unique authors
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I personally am not conscious of my accent.
— Jared Diamond
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It…
— Christopher Guest
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
— Abigail Breslin
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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
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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
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
— Claire Forlani
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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
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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
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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
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I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.
— Josh Holloway
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I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
— Jeremy Irvine
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
— Brion James
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Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
— Joey McIntyre
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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
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It can get a bit boring working on accents.
— Kelly Macdonald
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I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a…
— Stana Katic
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I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.
— Michelle Ryan
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No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the…
— Jandy Nelson
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It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend…
— Joss Stone
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I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer…
— Nikki DeLoach
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like.…
— Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Who Wrote These Accents Quotes
359 authors contributed a total of 415 Accents Quotes, led by these top contributors: