Accent Quotes - page 3

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent. (Freida Pinto)

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

Jaime King

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

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

Katy Mixon

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

Lawrence Welk

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

Max Greenfield

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

Max von Sydow

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

Michael Nyqvist

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

Michael W. Smith

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. (Nick Park)

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

Nikki DeLoach

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.

Piers Morgan

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.

Penelope Keith

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

Ricky Whittle

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

Radha Mitchell

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Radha Mitchell

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

Roselyn Sanchez

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.

Rudolf Arnheim

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.

Ruth Buzzi

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

Robin Hood: Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a English accent.

Mel Brooks

[On Churchill's Accent] "Ve must conquer da Narjies!" Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!

Mel Brooks

Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance. (p. 281)

Whittaker Chambers

He was still in a world of Greek gods and sacrifices, of Greek plays and Greek language, though the natives might speak Greek with a northern accent which hardened 'ch' into 'g','th' into 'd' and pronounced King Philip as Bilip.

Robin Lane Fox

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