Accents Quote by Lev Grossman

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

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have…

— John Key

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

— Maia Mitchell

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

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I…

— John Mahoney

I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On 'Vikings,' we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us sound the…

— Travis Fimmel

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various…

— Guy Pearce

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking…

— Poppy Montgomery

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

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up,…

— Mia Wasikowska

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

— Karen Bardsley