Quotes About Accent

I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

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.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

Um, thanks," she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn't to say Rose wasn't a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

No podía ser la novia de Mason porque cuando me imaginaba a alguien sujetándome y murmurándome marranadas al oído, ese alguien tenía acento ruso.

When I imagined somebody whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object?

Mike puts us into trance, pours language - definitions, idioms, concepts - into us for moments that feel like hours... then we dictate at once what he has poured into us, while it's still fresh. But it can't be just anybody. It requires a sharp accent and the ability to join trance rapport and then spill out the results. Sam, for example, has everything but the accent - he manages, God knows how, to speak Martian with a Bronx accent. Can't use him, it would cause endless errata.

I pushed him back with a finger. "Your accent stinks. Go away until you get it right.

The vampire who made her toes curl with his accented, old-fashioned phrasings. "Be my dear

Maybe I shouldn't roll over and let her have him so easily. I recalled how possessive I'd been about Brandon. I thought of what Mel would say: "Stop being a puss and take your toy back. What are you—minced meat?" Selena asked him, "Will you say back there again?" He complied. With his accent, it sounded like a rumbly bag dare. "Cajun is sooo hawt, J.D.

Never run from one such as me, female." Her attacker didn't sound human. "You will no' get away. And we like it." His voice was guttural like a beast's, yet his accent was . . . Scottish?

I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vat have you been up to, Governor?' Skip asked with an Arnold Swarzenegger accent. The relentless pursuit of crime,' John said. He pronounced crime with a long southern drawl and a wink. Then he burst into laugher with the rest of them. Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked a window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide open. He was so nineteen.

It was Gavin's turn to look perplexed. "You're from Tennessee?" "Of course she's from Tennessee," Nick said."Why do you think we always make fun of her accent?" Gavin shrugged. "Because it's there?

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door?

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.