Accent Quotes - page 9

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. (John Mahoney)
I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. View quote
Josh Holloway
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. View quote
Kevin McKidd
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life. View quote
Katie Leclerc
I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent. View quote
Lynn Samuels
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. View quote
Laura Wade
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. View quote
Leah Remini
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. View quote
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom. View quote
Allison Tolman
Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent. View quote
Bianca Lawson
Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix. (Caroline Winberg)
Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion. View quote
Eric Wareheim
I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool. View quote
Eiza Gonzalez
Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.' View quote
Jonathan LaPaglia
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian. View quote
Jonathan LaPaglia
No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally. View quote
Lauren Socha
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. View quote
Martin Henderson
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. View quote
Mary Stuart Masterson
I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this. View quote
Mary Stuart Masterson
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent. View quote
Matthew Rhys
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent. (Maz Jobrani)
I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent. View quote
Melanie Lynskey
I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me. View quote
Michelle Ryan
Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her to borrow my English accent sometimes. And honestly, a lot of people have told me that I've influenced them. View quote
Monie Love
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks. View quote
Moran Atias