Accent Quote by Stephen Mangan

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried…

— David Cameron

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

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

— Karen Bardsley

It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine."…

— Odeya Rush

The accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on parents.

— Anonymous

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

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

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

— Earl Wilson

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

— Mahershala Ali

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

— Elizabeth McGovern

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

— Catherine O'Hara