Accents Quote by Sting

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

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

— Sara Davies

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 toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

— Michelle Ryan

I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.…

— Fiona Hill

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in…

— Dan Fox

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

— Alessandro Nivola

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

— Edith Bowman

I learned many things in England. Above all, I learned that until you leave home, you don't know to appreciate what you have.

— Gerard Deulofeu

When I came to this country, people told me that if I wanted to teach and work here, I would have to take speech…

— Ruth Westheimer

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

— Roger Allam