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American Accent Quotes
I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.
Alex Roe
Think
Our
Say
Accent
Contrary
American
American Accent
Standard
English
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
Archie Panjabi
Too
Bit
Something
Voice
Mysterious
Had
Come
Accent
Another
Dialect
Off
Get
American
American Accent
Then
Coach
Deep
I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.
Ashley Jensen
Son
People
Unhappy
Made
Back
Some
About
Remark
Head
Knew
Prospect
Accent
Were
Up
America
American
American Accent
Wanting
Next
Next Thing
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Suggesting
Britain
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
Billy Idol
Become
Not Talking
Gone
Accent
Talking
Off
American
American Accent
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
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
Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
Estelle
Me
Rap
Tell
Nobody
Accent
American
American Accent
Going
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
Day
You
Speak
End Of The Day
Will
Long
Back
Way
All Day
Find
Takes
Accent
Talking
Because
Dialogue
Doing
End
Effort
American
American Accent
Shooting
Often
Fiancee
Just
Just Because
Used
Speaking
English
Bring
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
Time
You
Culture
People
Speak
Long
Long Time
Understanding
Before
Way
Some
Rely
Never
Part
Accent
Makes
Understand
Up
America
American
American Accent
Done
Working
Show
Mechanisms
Lived
Actor
Technical
Why
Started
Set
Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
Jai Courtney
Time
You
Per
Couple
Accent
Auditioning
Doing
Years
American
American Accent
Cent
It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.
Janet McTeer
Words
Incredibly
Some
Accent
Learn
American
American Accent
Ends
Hard
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
Thought
Own
Sum
Sum Total
Range
Tried
Total
Vocal
Horror
My Own
Could
Onto
Until
Make
Accent
Still
Louder
Quieter
American
American Accent
Front
Burnt
Expression
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
Home
Speak
School
Try
Three
Become
Year
Live
Back
Worry
Kids
Suppose
Come
Accent
Go
Times
Get
American
American Accent
Want
American Kids
Them
Us
Connected
Four
Britain
British
I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.
Lee Pace
Good
Great
You
People
Think
Everyone
OK
Kind
London
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
Part
Picky
Over
Like
Accent
Accents
Does
Doing
Were
Precious
American
American Accent
Where
Fantastic
Really
England
English
Even
Here
When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
Lennie James
Me
Characters
Voices
Like
Look
Accent
American
American Accent
Different
Who
Play
Playing
I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.
Lola Kirke
Family
Only
Accent
American
American Accent
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
Mallory Jansen
Funny
Danish
Outside
Never
Accent
Because
Always
Australia
Australian
Get
American
American Accent
Anything
English
When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'
Margot Robbie
Work
Thought
First
Just Be
Okay
Tried
Something
Could
Never
Until
Accent
Because
Get
American
American Accent
Just
Then
Moment
Actor
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
I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.
Poppy Montgomery
Myself
Day
Training
Speak
Try
Long
Too
Caricature
Spend
Spent
Like
Hours
Accent
Sound
Aussie
American
American Accent
Just
Ingrained
Speaking
Now
Set
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.
Priyanka Chopra
Queen
Speak
Giving
Giving Up
Lose
Eloquently
Back
Out
India
Pretty
Had
Miss
New
Come
Vowels
Well
Accent
Learn
Felt
Up
America
American
American Accent
York
Just
New York
Place
Pageant
Hard
English
Needed
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
Radha Mitchell
Me
Speak
To Be Honest
Easier
Accent
American
American Accent
Honest
I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.
Rebel Wilson
Love
Hurts
Face
Few
Though
Hours
Accent
Talking
American
American Accent
After
Even
I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
Robert Pattinson
You
Strange
Dangerous
Sometimes
Job
Before
Dangerous Thing
Never
Accent
Real
End
Up
American
American Accent
Forgetting
Done
After
While
Really
Your
Speaking
Keep
Thing
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