Accents Quotes

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

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

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

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 just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

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.

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

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

I don't have a good British accent.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.

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

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Accents are very easy for me.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

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.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.