Quotes About Identity

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I used to have a little Geordie accent when I was younger; they called me Little Geordie Fran.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

I have a funny accent in every language.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

I still keep my accent.

I never really had a strong accent.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

It's my biggest advantage with girls - I'm going to try to keep my accent as much as can.

There's sometimes an accent on TV and it's like 'are you American?', because I can kind of pick up on it a little bit and I never want to be in that position.

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.