Accents Quote by Desi Arnaz

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

— Lawrence Welk

The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

— Kaya Scodelario

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I…

— Eileen Myles

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

— Michael Socha

I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.…

— Fiona Hill

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I remember believing that I just wouldn't get work, so I just consciously had to practise other accents, but I enjoyed doing it.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC…

— Steph McGovern

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed…

— Priyanka Chopra

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

— Michelle Ryan