283 Accent Quotes for You to Enjoy

No one can understand my accent! Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent. Jimmy O. Yang

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It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together. Jimmy O. Yang

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I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop. Jimmy O. Yang

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Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy. Jimmy O. Yang

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I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent. Jimmy Smits

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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent. Jimmy Smits

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I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent. Joel Kinnaman

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I can hardly understand the Australian accent. Joey Santiago

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I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas. John Oliver

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I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people. John Oliver

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I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person. Johnnie Cochran

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I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard. Josh Lucas

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Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. Joss Whedon

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The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent. KRS-One

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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent. Katherine Waterston

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You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. Katy Mixon

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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. Kevin McKidd

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Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody. King Krule

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I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element. Kirsten Dunst

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