Lines Quote by Demian Bichir

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually…

— Antonio Banderas

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew…

— Penelope Cruz

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of…

— Penelope Cruz

I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I never, ever was able…

— Rita Moreno

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

— Ethan Coen

I went back to China and did a movie in Mandarin, and I don't speak Mandarin, so I learned it phonetically. Now, when I'm…

— Maggie Q

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against…

— Ethan Hawke

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

— Michael Socha

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country.…

— Carice van Houten

I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an…

— Johnny Depp

There's sometimes an accent on TV and it's like 'are you American?', because I can kind of pick up on it a little bit…

— Oliver Stark

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do…

— Margot Robbie