Accent Quote by John Key

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

— Amyra Dastur

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and…

— Lev Grossman

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have…

— Christopher Walken

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

— Alex Borstein

I never really had a strong accent.

— Daniel Craig

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

— Lawrence Welk

My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke…

— George Ogilvie

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

— Maia Mitchell

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

— Karen Bardsley

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe.…

— Rege-Jean Page

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell