"The 'New York Honk,' as it was called,……" — Tom Wolfe

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• I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose… — Peter Ackroyd
• I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it… — Amy Adams
• 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
• The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was… — Eric Bana
• In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a… — Joe Biden
• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent… — Orlando Bloom
• If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies,… — Emily Blunt
• I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. — Erma Bombeck
• I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. — Anthony Bourdain
• I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for… — Bill Bryson
• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of… — Nicolas Cage
• When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. — Michael Caine

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