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They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
Cleo Moore
Seem
Charmed
Accent
Southern
Southern Accent
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.
Cleo Moore
Truth
Me
You
Lost
Think
Back
Tell
Only
Feel
Accent
Southern
Southern Accent
Shouting
Fights
Games
Baseball
I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.
Constance Wu
Me
Honor
Absolute
Taiwanese
Like
Accent
Very
Privilege
Trained
Canadian
Craft
Just
Whether
Which
Aspire
Play
Things
British
I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
D. B. Sweeney
Funny
Strong
Thought
Long
Out
Guy
Long Island
Voiceover
Had
Accent
Because
Island
Up
Very
Ended
Actor
Started
You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.
DJ Qualls
Me
You
People
Stupid
Complete
Complete Opposite
Say
TV
Bad
People Say
Having
Had
Know
Accent
Makes
Opposite
Effect
Southern
Southern Accent
So Many People
Really
Many
Kept
I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
Damian Lewis
Day
Wake Up
Those
All Day
Stay
Accent
Idiots
Till
Off
Wake
Up
America
American
American Accent
Working
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
Damian Lewis
Good
Not Good Enough
Enough
Out
Accent
American
American Accent
Flip
Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
Daniel Boulud
Great
Down
Top
Hash
New
Accent
Beef
Fried
Egg
York
Vibe
New York
Wash
Champagne
I never really had a strong accent.
Daniel Craig
Strong
Never
Had
Accent
Really
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Speak
Accent
German
Germans
Just
I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
Daniel Radcliffe
Me
Think
Say
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Never
Accent
Doing
Want
Irritated
Cockney
Play
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
Daniel Tammet
Learning
Language
Long
Lost
Consider
Bit
Almost
Over
Like
Accent
Practising
Been
Years
So Many Years
Social
Skills
Many
Social Skills
There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
Daniela Ruah
School
Think
Everybody
Accent
Mix
Up
American
Going
Quite
Just
Moved
English
International
Grow
Grow Up
I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.
David Carradine
Funny
Needs
Walk
Somebody
Know
Accent
Without
Doing
Kung
Kung Fu
Maybe
Anybody
Chinese
Really
Convince
Act
Need
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
Deborah Tannen
Life
Remember
Mother
My Life
Living
Back
Mine
Tell
Brooklyn
Could
Detroit
Had
Part
New
Come
She
Accent
Because
Always
Been
Friend
Up
Commenting
York
New York
Grew
Speaking
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz
Me
Everyone
Seemed
Except
Well
Accent
Doing
Any
Helping
Career
All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.
Dimebag Darrell
You
Beats
Accent
Normally
Means
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.
Dinaw Mengestu
You
Eyes
Anxiety
Lawyer
Mouth
Else
Say
Diminished
Would
About
Someone
Something
Could
Open
Feel
Soon
Accent
Always
Person
Curious
May
Your
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
Djimon Hounsou
Funny
Speak
Better
Try
Down
Every
Enough
Had
Accent
Diction
Role
Tone
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
Dorothy Malone
Lose
Only
Accent
Texas
Did
Any
The Only Thing
Note
Thing
While I am fluent in Hindi, I was a little worried about my accent. So when I was approached for 'Karwaan,' I told them they need to first listen to me speak in Hindi, in case it sounds off.
Dulquer Salmaan
Me
Speak
First
Fluent
Worried
About
Case
Accent
Hindi
Am
Sounds
Off
Listen
While
Little
Them
Need
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson
Today
Youth
Stress
Parents
Accent
Still
May
You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
Edgar Ramirez
Funny
Day
You
School
Opportunity
First
Guy
New
Accent
Foreigner
Persona
Get
Create
Whole
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
Edmund White
Made
Conservatism
Mark
Anarchic
Moral
Paris
Never
True
Know
Equal
Accent
Parts
Foreigners
Up
Quite
Where
Experimentation
Place
Social
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
Edward Hirsch
Hair
Manners
Laughs
Runs
Through
Splendid
He
Consummate
New
Accent
His
Hands
York
Precise
New York
James
Storyteller
Elegant
Gray
Gray Hair
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins
People
Think
Too
British People
Other
Way
Say
Bad
Find
Excruciating
Most
Accent
Around
American
American Accent
Who
British
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