Accent Quotes - page 8

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!' (Cara Buono)
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to. View quote
Deborah Kerr
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. View quote
Diane Ladd
I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. View quote
Dinesh D'Souza
You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent. View quote
DJ Qualls
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. View quote
Djimon Hounsou
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent. View quote
Dorothy Malone
If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it. View quote
Emily Blunt
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher. View quote
Freddie Stroma
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy. (Gilbert Gottfried)
I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have. View quote
Hillary Scott
My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before. View quote
Hunter Hayes
I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time. View quote
Ioan Gruffudd
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. View quote
Jane Haddam
Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. View quote
Jane Horrocks
I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. View quote
Janet McTeer
New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent. View quote
Janet Montgomery
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent. View quote
Jennifer Ehle
Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'. View quote
Jennifer Ellison
I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent. (Jeremy Irvine)
I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is. View quote
Joe Buck
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success. View quote
Jack McBrayer
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies. View quote
Jacki Weaver
I can hardly understand the Australian accent. View quote
Joey Santiago