Quotes About Accent

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

With only 30% of players in Premier League squads qualified to play for England, the accent on developing home-grown talent is heavier than ever.

I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.

Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.'

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

My neutral accent is Bolton.

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Her voice was soft and flowing, and though he recognized it as Deep South, it seemed almost a foreign tongue after the coastal Maine cadence he'd grown used to. He wasn't a man to be pleased with having a magnolia blossom tossed on his doorstep. When she opened her eyes and smiled at him, Grant wished fervently he'd never opened the door.

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.

Sometimes his brain works if he can manage it like music, like a song, like a river that does not halt. So he singsongs it: "Tell you what I'm gonna do, see." With the accent, like a Brooklyn

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

Sometimes I forget how country my accent is... Until I hear a recording of myself and I literally sound like cornbread.

You are avake, yah? said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent. Yah, I muttered, rubbing my head. And you are still a jerk, yah?

Her English had an elegant European lilt, what I thought was a French accent—?vowels in the front of her mouth, consonants brushed with feathers.

also miss the Cockney accent.

I listened to the 911 tape. The caller had a British accent and sounded scared. In fact, the fear in her voice and whatever she wasn't saying were more alarming than what she said.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

My accent fades away I guess when I sing. It's real weird. I guess singing is pretty much a universal language like you sing however everyone else sings and that's with an American accent. I sound very different when I talk.