Accents Quotes

Accents Quote of the day

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

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

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

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

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

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

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

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

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

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.

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

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

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

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

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

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

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

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

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

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

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

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