Accents Quotations

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

One of the big things at the press conference was that people didn't want the accents to end up like 'Fargo,' which they felt were an exaggeration, ... We were all real conscientious of trying to get it right and the person in charge of getting the dialect right was amazing. We tried to be subtle.

He was concerned about how the British accents would translate, and sometimes we rerecorded lines to make things clearer,

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

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

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

I never really had a strong accent.

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

We wanted to address the Latino female audience so the clothes have accents and detail from Latin culture. Erika designs the clothing in the U.S. and sends it to Colombia, her hometown, where her mother's company manufactures it.

I've never been a post-up player. I think of posting up as something that accents my game. I didn't want to be put there at first. I'm not David Lucas and I'm not Kyle Jeffers. I do a little bit of everything. Basically, it was finding my role on the team because it changed from last year. I'm just trying to adapt to it. I'm not going to play post ever again in my life.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make.

They have fabulous British accents and they are really fun with their British invasion music.

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

By making the tests standardized, regional accents will be removed, pauses between sounds would be constant and overall consistency would vastly improve.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.