Accents Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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 never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

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

[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

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

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

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

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

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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

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.

I can do accents really well.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

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

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

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

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

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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