American Quote by Stefflon Don

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment,…

— Ella Mai

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

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

— Alex Borstein

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

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

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very…

— Toks Olagundoye

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

— Karen Bardsley

My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.

— Sergino Dest

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where…

— Sarita Choudhury

My family were from Jamaica.

— Diane Abbott

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian,…

— Eline Powell