Accent Quotes - page 5

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way. (Henry Cavill)
There's a southern accent, where I come from. The young 'uns call it country, the Yankees call it dumb. View quote
Tom Petty
I write in what we call Hiberno-English, and it would be disastrous to lose my literary accent, as both Joyce and Beckett began to do in exile. In their case the unique tone of voice they each unwittingly adopted only made for a deeper poetic intensity; I suspect if I were to undergo a similar loss the result would not be so productive. View quote
John Banville
Every time I turn on the television and hear a manager from the lower divisions, they've usually got a Scottish accent. I don't know the reason for that but let's hope it continues. I like the philosophy of Scottish managers, they've always got this will to win and this work ethic, which I believe in. View quote
George Graham
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. View quote
Stewart Copeland
[in a British accent] Oh, they're so royal! We're lucky to have them coming here. But the rabble undoubtedly will be violent. Scum protesters– Oh, these insane people imagining the helicopters landing and the troops– these insane schizophrenics have come to town. The rabble– I'm so glad– thank God we're elite enough to have them though. I'm so honored. [switches to Cockney accent] Get back there mate! I'll have to have you arrested and have you deported! We're protecting criminals inside, busy stealing our pension funds and overrunning the country with third world populations. Now get back, you Yankee scum! HA HA! To show you the power of the Royal Guard Brigade! And this is the scotch we've been coughing down! Look at that pumpkin-headed Yank! That's the one, Alex Jones! I want you to know, young man, we will be watching you continually while we protect the Transhumanists putting cancer viruses in our children's shots! View quote
Alex Jones
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
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. View quote
Anish Kapoor
I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character. View quote
Larry the Cable Guy
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. View quote
Robert Pattinson
...for the Dasavatharam', she was my coach for my American accent. She had just returned from the US and was the perfect medium to help her father's Madrasi accent to be transformed into a yankee accent. She was a bully. She made me do many retakes in the dubbing. And after dubbing, she wanted me to correct some more of my accent. Everyone thought that was taking it a little too far. (Kamal Haasan)
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Have you guys noticed that Madonna is British now? OK, let's talk about her lineage for a minute. Raised in Michigan, moved to New York, is British. She started turning British like at the Golden Globes and she was doing the interviews and she says "telly" instead of "television" and she uses the word "actually" way too much and then she's also sorta bringing her voice down to a register around here (brings her voice down) and she's being interviewed for the Golden Globes and she's got whole, you know, crazy hair that everybody hated and everybody has and they were saying, "Well, Madonna, we're so glad to have you at the Golden Globes." (speaks in Madonna British accent) "Well, actually, it is more fun to come here than watch it on the telly". You know. Look, I'm from the midwest- its a TV. View quote
Kathy Griffin
On Vince Cable: But he's charming and northern; he's the man tasked with crushing the poor in their own accent, isn't he really? View quote
Jeremy Hardy
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. View quote
Orlando Bloom
Now I know what you are thinking; "how did he know what was drawn in the envelope?” Clearly, I must have detected in his voice the accent of my home town, Bristol, so he's only going to be thinking of a tractor or marrying your own sister. A tractor's easier to draw so Bob's your uncle... and your Dad. And you'd be right. View quote
Derren Brown
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line. View quote
Tom Robbins
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. View quote
Erma Bombeck
She says she was the only south Indian actress who could speak Hindi without a South Indian accent, at the time. View quote
Vyjayanthimala
They're a migratory tribe, so you find them everywhere [...] They're hardy, longevitous, resistant to infection by disease or new ideas, little modified by regional influences. The accent drifts a bit, maybe. The dialect adapts itself to the local patois: but that's a chameleon's trick: protective colouring, no more. The rest of it, the sinuous mind, the easy passion, the leery eye, the ready smile, the fine, swaggering, billycock-and-shillelagh walk, the flexible moralities, the bel canto oratory, the black bilious angers, these never change. View quote
Morris West
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. (Sting (musician))
It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon.(On performing with an American accent) View quote
Hugh Laurie
I guess there's some sort of unspoken show business rule, [speaks in British accent] 'You do the theater, and then you move into television, and then, of course, that is your steppingstone to film stardom.' I've done it every which way. I've done theater for many, many years and then had some success in films. I would do television sporadically. I thought this was a good time to try it. View quote
Nathan Lane
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. View quote
Lord Byron
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez