Accents Quotes

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.

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

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

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

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.

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

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.

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

I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

I can do accents really well.

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!

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.

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

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

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

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

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

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

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

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

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.

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

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

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

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I think, as you get older, your brain is a bit slower.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.

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.

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

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

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.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

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.

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.