American people Quote by Felicity Jones

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The…

— Felicity Jones

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

— Felicity Jones

The American vice is explanation.

— Gore Vidal

“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

— Frances Trollope

A lot of Americans take to my sound.

— Stefflon Don

“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a…

— Geoffrey Wood

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to…

— Jesse Jackson

What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite.

— Cynthia Erivo

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well.…

— Tracey Ullman

Americans like things that don't sound American.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

— Miriam Margolyes