Accents Quotes

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

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

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

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

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

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

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

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

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.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

I never really had a strong accent.

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

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

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

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

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

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

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

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

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

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.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

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.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

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

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

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

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

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

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

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

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

I've always had facility with the German accent.