Accent Quote by John Oliver Download Open image “A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.” — John Oliver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accent Accents Bag Bags Club Clubs Southern Southern accent
“While Dixieland men may have struggled with a language inferiority complex, the opposite is true of Southern women. We’ve always known our accent is… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting… — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's how you're brought up -- with Southerners, family (blood kin or not) is sacred; you respect others and are polite nearly to a fault; you always know your place but are fierce about your beliefs. And… — Jan Norris Copy Share
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Southern accent. British accent. My accent. WHO AM I???? Oh that's right. An actress. — Sarah Hyland Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!” — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids.… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character. — Kodi Smit-McPhee Copy Share Image
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent… — Sasha Jackson Copy Share Image
I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
