Accent Quotes - page 7

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. (Michael Caine)
The mind, like the body, has its contagious diseases and its scurvy. ...[W]e catch everything from those with whom we come in contact; their gestures, their accent, etc. View quote
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit. View quote
Gemma Arterton
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. View quote
Eric Bana
I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one. View quote
Rachel Bilson
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. View quote
Mia Wasikowska
I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller. View quote
Goran Visnjic
I'm working with a dialect coach, but it's not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like 'peritoneal lavage', you know, these medical expressions... I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller. View quote
Goran Visnjic
You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing. View quote
Diane Kruger
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. View quote
Emily Ratajkowski
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)
I think we have a really good work ethic, and we're committed to not only being professional on set but also working hard to do what it takes to get the job. But I also think having an Aussie accent is a bit of a drawcard! It's something different and people seem to like it-let's just go with that! View quote
Claire Holt
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from. View quote
Ben Chaplin
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it. View quote
Alessandro Nivola
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set. View quote
Alice Englert
I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want. View quote
Abigail Breslin
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. View quote
Anthony LaPaglia
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American. View quote
Archie Panjabi
I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me. View quote
Adelaide Kane
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different. View quote
Adhir Kalyan
To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. (Adrian Smith)
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. View quote
Charlotte Church
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though. View quote
Chris Lilley
Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents. View quote
Christopher Heyerdahl
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games. View quote
Cleo Moore