Accents Quotes

415 Accents quotes by 359 unique authors

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. — Annalena McAfee
I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent. — Lynn Samuels
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and… — Stephen Daldry
I can hardly understand the Australian accent. — Joey Santiago
I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller. — Goran Visnjic
If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't… — Goran Visnjic
I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I… — Olivier Martinez
I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing… — Kristin Chenoweth
I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to… — Carey Mulligan
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go… — Carey Mulligan
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. — Jamie Bell
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language,… — Alicia Keys
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a… — Yelawolf
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all… — James Gibbons
The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of… — Joseph Addison
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired… — Jay Leno
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now. — Robert Benchley
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from… — Hector Berlioz
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let… — Charles Churchill
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having… — Alain de Botton
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest… — John Singer Sargent
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives.… — Bob Hayes

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