Clever Quote by Steph McGovern

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final…

— Nina Bawden

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be…

— Sting

I got so much negative feedback about my accent. People saying, 'Yeah, you need to go to elocution lessons.'

— Edith Bowman

I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child…

— Gina Bellman

I applied to Oxford in the '80s and was invited to an interview. It was like a scene from 'Billy Elliot.' People were making…

— Fiona Hill

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

— Elena Roger

“Rose," Alberta said, leaning toward me. "I'm going to be blunt with you. I'm not going to give you lectures or demand any explanations.…

— Richelle Mead

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC…

— Steph McGovern

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of…

— Peter Ackroyd

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought,…

— Hugh Grant

“I read my email aloud to hear how it sounded, then I read it again in a British accent to make sure it didn’t…

— Jerry Mahoney

I went to this rubbish school. I asked the careers master what he thought that I was going to do with my life, and…

— Emily Thornberry