Accents Quote by Penelope Keith

“This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish…

— Joe Bennett

I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.

— Rita Ora

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

— Ncuti Gatwa

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

— Sam Heughan

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that…

— Rick Wakeman

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think…

— Russell Peters

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

— Robin Williams

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is…

— Nell Hudson

I've never lost my Scots accent but my son has a classic British accent.

— David Coulthard

I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in Ireland, too,…

— Chloe Pirrie

My dad has a half-Australian and half-Scottish accent and a lot of people struggle to understand him.

— Megan Anderson

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say…

— Callum Keith Rennie