Quotes About Accent

He found Frank Wisner much harder to read. "He was extremely polite, and obviously very intelligent, but there was a kind of tension, a nervousness, about him. And he was a Southerner, of course. I hadn't really been around many Southerners at that point, so it was hard for me to square his energy level, his dynamism, with this soft accent, this gracious quality of his.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

I hate when you play therapist. Especially with your accent. It makes everything you say sound so BBC.

People's voices change a lot when they speak a different language.

And everything you say sounds better because it's in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.

Howard] Cosell spoke in a Brooklyn accent, with vowels that got trapped in the back of his nose and consonants that exploded from his mouth with unexpected force and speed. It was a voice that reminded listeners of a trumpet in the hands of a non-trumpeter.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

you can live somewhere for years, and your neighbours will only ever hear you as a newcomer, but go home and your friends say, Oh you' ve got such an accent . . . But

I found him to be smart and very tough. (His heavy New York accent contributed to that impression.)

I had a roommate who refused to believe that there were black people from Australia and that I just had this accent. I got frustrated. I'm saying, 'mate, you've never heard of Aboriginals?' And he definitely never heard of the Torres Strait Islands.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

As I am a Bengali and am used to conversing in Bengali and English, I thought my Hindi would show an accent.

My Hindi was not very good, but I guess people liked my accent and gave me Hindi roles.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

You speak French and Italian?" Moe lounged back, crossing long legs. "Having been acquainted for years with that beautiful creature known as Latin, I try to savor its ornate, loquacious offspring. Yet the French accent eludes me." Karl smiled. Somehow this big guy with an easy, sliding smile and precise diction made you like him. Presence, that's it. "My wife can help you with that. Have dinner with us." Moe Berg

But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.