Accent Dialect Quotes

#1. He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.

P.D. James

#2. What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other

Rosina Lippi-Green

#3. Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Madeleine Stowe

#4. I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Archie Panjabi

#5. Distraction is your friend.

Susane Colasanti

#6. The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Rudyard Kipling

#7. Philanthropy is ... greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Taoists don't have any maps.

Osho

#9. I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

Ralph Fiennes

#10. Who flipped your bitch switch ? -Elora

Quinn Loftis

#11. The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

Gregg Allman

#12. Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

Brad Alan Lewis

#13. I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

Kim Dickens

#14. The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

Andie MacDowell

#15. I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Callan McAuliffe

#16. The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Martin Henderson

#17. Q'eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of "I offer you the bread of life," but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into "Let us violate cakes together.

John Scalzi

#18. I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Odeya Rush

#19. Judy laughed. "Hallelujah, the blind saw!

Donald James Parker

#20. My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

Elizabeth McGovern

#21. To get someone to follow them, a Siren would most likely appear as that person's deepest desire. The thing they wanted most. Cole's had become me, only it wasn't me as the queen, which I assumed would've been what Cole wanted most. It wasn't even me as an Everliving.
It was me, simply as me.

Brodi Ashton