Accent Quotes

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

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

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

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!'

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

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

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

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

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.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

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

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

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.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.