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You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city…

— Shannon Hale

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I was studying speech-language pathology at Iona College and I got my bachelor's degree there.

— Mandy Rose

“I have the Denver Omelet of accents. And considering I’m from Denver, it makes sense. Now if I also lived in Cheeseland (Wisconsin) it…

— Jarod Kintz

“That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.”

— Richard P. Feynman

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

— Roma Downey

No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.

— Romany Malco

“Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I’ve got several degrees. Call me Mr.”

— Charles Bukowski

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

— Michael Caine

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter…

— Steph McGovern

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a…

— Kate Nash

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago.…

— Gillian Jacobs