Accents Quote by Christopher Heyerdahl

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother…

— Siri Hustvedt

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a…

— Stephen Mangan

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for…

— Lucy Boynton

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where…

— Sarita Choudhury

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

— Alex Borstein

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

— Catherine O'Hara

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

— Karen Bardsley

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

— Amyra Dastur

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very…

— Toks Olagundoye

Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and…

— David Crystal