Quotes About Accent

Your speech so halting and unguarded is the only thing left with which to content myself. But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

I break up the English a little bit. I don't mean to do it, but it just comes out that way.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

He spoke with a funny maybe-Hungarian, maybe-Arabic accent, like something he made up for a comedy sketch. Anton was unshaven, the stubble on his face glistening in a not-pleasant way. He wore sunglasses even though it was cave-dark in here. "This

When I bagged the role of Swadheenta Ramakrishnan, I was expected to learn Tamil. I think getting the accent was the toughest thing.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

That's a Z," I corrected, making sure to pronounce it "zee." "I'm afraid that's a zed," she counter-corrected