Foreign Accent Quotes

#1. Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#2. Laughter has no foreign accent.

Paul B. Lowney

#3. He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Coraline? Oh, there you are. Where on earth were you?' 'I was kidnapped by aliens,' said Coraline. 'They came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.' 'Yes,

Neil Gaiman

#5. Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.

Janet Fitch

#6. I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

Kate O'Mara

#7. Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Amy Chua

#8. If I have a foreign accent - which I much regret - it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

Sarah Bernhardt

#9. The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Rudolf Arnheim

#10. Also, a foreign accent if at least intelligible can sound quite sexy.

C.J. Cherryh

#11. There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

Carole Nelson Douglas

#12. I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.

Neil Gaiman

#13. A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#14. Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Sidney Poitier

#15. I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

Olivier Martinez

#16. I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there's a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it's cancer.

Bernie Siegel

#18. A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Martin E. Marty

#19. How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

Rachel Nichols

#20. I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

Paul Newman

#21. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

#22. No one starts a war
or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so
without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#23. A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.

Tielle St. Clare

#24. France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

Pierre Laval

#25. Never forget the way you pulled closer - wanting it to feel like my heart was beating inside your chest.

Colleen Hoover

#26. The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

C. C. H. Pounder

#27. Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

Will Oldham

#28. I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Dinesh D'Souza