Accent Quotes

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. Guillermo del Toro
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My mum won't speak to me unless I speak properly on the phone. I have to speak 'American' for work, so often the accent comes through when I'm not at work. Hannah Simone
Work Me Speak Phone Unless Properly Through Accent American Often Mum
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
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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. Hillary Scott
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When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents. Hong Chau
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But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way. Hugh Grant
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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. Hunter Hayes
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right. Idris Elba
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture. Idris Elba
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For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent. India Eisley
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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. Jack McBrayer
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty. Jack McBrayer
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Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent. Jai Courtney
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I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. Jaime King
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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with. Jake Peavy
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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. James Ellroy
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It's easier to act in your own accent. James Nesbitt
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The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do. James Purefoy
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In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear. Jamie Blackley
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An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America. Jane Seymour
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I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind. Janeane Garofalo
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It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard. Janet McTeer
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What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing. Jason Alexander
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The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category. Jason Isbell
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.' Jason Mantzoukas
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When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent. Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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