Accents Quote by Eileen Myles

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons.…

— Emmylou Harris

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become…

— Michael Caine

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.

— Karunas

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish…

— Sarah Bolger

I was an Englishman in New York playing a New Yorker... I had to be very careful with my accent.

— Adrian Lester

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

— Lake Bell

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the…

— Nikki DeLoach

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 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

My British accent often made me close my throat and sing from all the wrong places.

— Jen Ledger

I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of…

— Sam Palladio

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of…

— Peter Ackroyd