Accent Quote by Joss Whedon

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed…

— Vinny Guadagnino

I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare.

— Joanna Page

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against…

— Ethan Hawke

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is…

— James Avery

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to…

— Ralph Fiennes

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

— John Tiffany

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and…

— Colin Firth

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties,…

— Norman Mailer

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of an insult…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

— Katy Mixon

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to.…

— Christopher Guest