Accents famous quotes

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

#Fun #Accents

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

#Helping #Speak #Accents

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

#Actors #Able #Accents

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

#Forget #Accents

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

#Bravery #Accents

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.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Reality #Hands #Accents

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

#School #Accents #Glasgow

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.
-- Anthony LaPaglia

#Accents #Coaches

My accent's become a weird hybrid.
-- Anthony LaPaglia

#Accents #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.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Gone #England #Accents

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.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Mind #Scottish #Accents

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

#Girl #Different #Accents

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.
-- Barbara Walters

#Boston #Kind #Accents

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

#Reading #Punctuation #Accents

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

#Talking #Gone #Accents

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

#Parrots #Accents #Just Do It

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

#Fun #Actors #Accents

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
-- Charlize Theron

#Culture #Lost #Accents

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

#Actors #Conscious #Accents

My accent depends on whom I'm around.
-- Claire Forlani

#Accents

I never really had a strong accent.
-- Daniel Craig

#Strong #Accents

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis

#Speak #Accents

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

#Want #Accents

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

#Looks #Accents #Tap Dance

Accent your positive and delete your negative.
-- Donna Karan

#Negative #Accents

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

#Texas #Notes #Accents

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
-- Edwin Newman

#Sound #Television #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.
-- Eric Bana

#Scratches #Accents #Familiar

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

#World #Speak #Accents

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

#Sometimes #Accents

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

#Drama #School #Accents

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.
-- Geri Halliwell

#Complaining #Sometimes #Accents

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

#Want #Accents

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.
-- Goran Visnjic

#Guy #Accents #Come Up

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

#Roles #Accents

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.
-- Hector Elizondo

#Speak #Accents #Difficult

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

#Grief #Disease #Accents

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.
-- Idris Elba

#Years #Three #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.
-- Ioan Gruffudd

#Los Angeles #Accents

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn
-- Jaime King

#Accents

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

#Mickey #Accents #Worst

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

#Kind #Pretending #Accents

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

#America #Agents #Accents

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

#Guy #Kind #Accents

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
-- Janet McTeer

#Nervous #Accents

I personally am not conscious of my accent.
-- Jared Diamond

#Conscious #Accents

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

#Thinking #Accents

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

#Different #Wonder #Accents

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

#Tools #Stories #Accents

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.
-- Joel Edgerton

#Enough #Know Yourself #Accents

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
-- Joey McIntyre

#Scottish #Accents

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
-- Joey Santiago

#Accents

I can do accents really well.
-- Jordin Sparks

#Accents #Wells

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!
-- Josh Hartnett

#Cute #Accents #British

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

#Trying #Buffalo #Accents

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
-- Josh Lucas

#Broken #Southern #Accents

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.
-- Joss Stone

#Years #Paper #Accents

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.
-- Katheryn Winnick

#Way #Vikings #Accents

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

#Southern #Honey #Accents

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

#Men #Accents #Sucker

It can get a bit boring working on accents.
-- Kelly Macdonald

#Boring #Accents

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.
-- Kirk Hammett

#Use #Accents #Aspect

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

#Talking #Accents #Conversation

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

#Leader #Accents

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable [hearing myself sing], I sang in another accent.
-- Lupe Fiasco

#Hearing #Accents

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Accents #Terrible

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.
-- Marcus Mumford

#Girl #Facts #Accents

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Wind #Accents #Soothing

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

#Talking #Kind #Accents

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

#Accents #Instant

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

#School #People #Accents

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.
-- Mike Myers

#Years #Body #Accents

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

#Girl #Ideas #Accents

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.
-- Olivier Martinez

#Play #Accents #Foreigners

Laughter has no foreign accent.
-- Paul B. Lowney

#Laughter #Accents

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
-- Pierre Bonnard

#Strength #Accents

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!'
-- Rachael Ray

#Enough #Accents #Exclamation

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

#Accents

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

#Different #Accents #Grew

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

#Trying #Fit #Accents

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

#Departure #Accents

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

#Character #Accents #Critical

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

#Writing #Going Away #Accents

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

#Girl #Accents

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
-- Theodore Bikel

#Accents #Very Good

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

#Character #Way #Accents

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
-- Vivien Leigh

#Language #Found #Accents

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

#Noble #Accents #Rhythm

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

#People #Dumb #Accents

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
-- Zedd

#People #Accents

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

#Thinking #Accents #Convince

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
-- Denis O'Hare

#Detroit #Accents #Born

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

#Wife #Accents

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.
-- Dolores O'Riordan

#Strong #Grew Up #Accents

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.
-- Nell Hudson

#Scottish #Accents #Certain

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.
-- Quindon Tarver

#Laughing #Remember #Accents

I've always had facility with the German accent.
-- Mercedes Ruehl

#Accents #Facility

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
-- Odeya Rush

#Challenges #Accents

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.
-- Toks Olagundoye

#England #Accents #British