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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.
Martin Henderson
Somewhere
Become
Lost
Difficult
Assumed
Way
Months
Embarrassed
Able
About
Habit
Had
Put
Along
Accent
Got
Dialect
Proved
Arrived
La
American
American Accent
Six
Little
Coach
Working
When I arrived in L.A., 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.
Martin Henderson
Become
Difficult
Assumed
Months
Able
Habit
Had
Put
Accent
Dialect
Proved
Arrived
American
American Accent
Six
Coach
Working
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.
Martin Henderson
People
Our
Constantly
See
Struggling
Instead
Accent
Accents
Emulate
Always
Trying
American
Which
Us
Asked
Reassuring
Actually
British
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan
You
Age
Will
Past
Say
Able
Shake
Never
Come
Accent
Understand
America
Eighteen
Anyone
Your
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
Matthew Quick
You
Travel
People
Sometimes
Will
Country
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Say
Bizarre
Someone
Like
California
Accent
Audience
Get
Where
Place
England
Round
Philadelphia
I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.
Max Greenfield
Love
Reality
Confused
Illusion
Rest
Slept
Adler
Clarify
Some
Someone
Give
Scenario
More
Throw
Blanket
Throws
Never
Jonathan
Accent
Underneath
Does
Importantly
Exist
Want
Might
Chair
Sofa
No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.
Maya Rudolph
Beautiful
Accent
Your
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
Hope
Side
Would
Would-Be
Able
Guy
Variety
Accent
Another
Parts
Always
Middle
Want
Show
Play
When I first went to acting school, they made me lose my accent, which is very upsetting for me. The first day of Shakespeare class, I remember the professor was like, 'Oh, boy. Oh no, no, no, no. No, no, no,' and sent me to a voice and speech class to get rid of the accent immediately.
Melissa Rauch
Day
Me
Class
Remember
School
Made
First
Lose
Immediately
Shakespeare
Voice
Like
Accent
Boy
Very
Get
Oh
Upsetting
Which
Sent
Acting
Acting School
Rid
Professor
Speech
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
Mia Wasikowska
You
Yourself
Every
Instant
Part
Reminds
Accent
Doing
Playing
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
Michael Caine
People
Become
Other
Say
People Say
Could
Know
Accent
Boy
Any
Wanted
Working-Class
Cockney
Actor
David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.
Michael Nyqvist
Best
Daniel
See
Directors
David
Know
Accent
Hear
Curious
Want
Really
Swedish
An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
Time
Me
Face
Think
Took
Mine
Bad
Bad Boy
Easy
Risk
More
Casting
Directors
Casting Directors
Bless
Like
Accent
Stick
Boy
Lot
Human
Just
Being
Being Human
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
Michael W. Smith
Other
Bit
Accent
Hand
Southern
Southern Accent
It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.
Michelle Dockery
News
Me
Old
Seems
Headlines
Make
Accent
Always
I like a New York accent.
Mollie King
New
Like
Accent
York
New York
I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
Molly Shannon
School
Comedy
Big
Year
Drama
Drama School
Accent
Became
Big Hit
Very
Campus
Hit
Southern
Southern Accent
Did
Then
Really
Used
Show
Serious
Actress
NYU
Last
Monologues
Last Year
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
Moran Atias
You
Change
Hide
Hair
Tricks
Masks
Accent
Get
Your
Actor
I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.
Naby Keita
Best
Try
Will
Difficult
Bit
Find
Accent
There was a time when I only wanted to show off, but as I've grown older, I've realised that acting isn't an end in itself. You act to communicate something, and if you have to use an accent or become thin or fat, that's part of your job.
Naseeruddin Shah
Time
You
Communicate
Job
Become
Show Off
Older
Something
Only
Part
Accent
Off
End
Itself
Wanted
Realised
Act
Acting
Use
Your
Show
Grown
Thin
Fat
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Nick Park
Strange
Cute
Kind
Find
Charm
Something
Like
Accent
American
Certain
British
I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.
Nikki DeLoach
Me
Mother
Old
Drop
Living
Summer
Broadway
New
Like
Accent
Learned
How
Auditioning
Doing
Years
Southern
Southern Accent
Modeling
Commercials
Get
York
Taught
New York
Rid
Lived
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
Paloma Faith
You
Speak
Indicate
Accent
Understand
Intellect
Why
Level
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
Penelope Keith
Love
Husband
Yesterday
Back
Rural
Accent
Accents
Got
Scotland
Just
Against
If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself in my own zone - I worry about listening to new music that'll inform me too much. I'm the kind of person who goes to another country and starts speaking in an accent after three days.
Perfume Genius
Music
Myself
Me
Writing
Listening
Too Much
Three
Country
Own
Starts
Too
Everybody
Worry
Fuss
Kind
About
My Own
New
Days
Accent
Another
Making
New Music
Person
Goes
After
Inform
Much
Speaking
Who
Download
Keep
Album
Zone
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.
Peter Hermann
Work
Language
Easily
Able
Vocal
Fairly
Accent
Learn
German
Get
Just
Patterns
Rid
English
Lucky
Speech
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