Quotes About Accent

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.

I'm very lucky, because it's a combination of the German, the Hebrew, the Swiss, the French, and that accent helped because as soon as people heard it they knew it was me.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

He was Irish, which always helped. A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn't.

Melanie was Irish, and this made everything she said sound nice even when it wasn't.

He was a stranger here too; he noticed his accent had softened and his expectations of people had hardened.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Betty's accent was everything Cent's wasn't-deep and New England. Her ending R sounds were more like an H, and her word choices…they'd all but needed dictionaries to understand each other when they'd met the year before.

Blake Lost his temper. But they didn't do anything to you, did they? He inquired savagely. When they heard your Southern accent and your Southern name, they put you in a cell to think over your poor taste in lovers, patted you on the head, and let you go. You loved this man, Tony, or at least you led us to believe you did. The honorable thing for you to do is hear what he has to say.

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

I lived in Chicago until I was about 12, and then I moved to Dallas until I was 19. So I think both were probably the time right when I was about to get an accent, or I lost it right when I moved.

Guru had such a different voice from most people. Plus he had a Boston accent! So, I always made sure the beats were tailored to him.

I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.