Accents Quote by Gloria Swanson

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

— St. Vincent

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother…

— Kim Cattrall

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 developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent.…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of…

— Nick Lowe

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's…

— John Leguizamo

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a…

— Chris Parnell

By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we…

— Emma Stone

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville…

— Steve Young

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

— Kris Kristofferson

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he…

— Nicolas Cage

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

— Zawe Ashton