Have An Accent Quotes

#1. It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

Salma Hayek

#2. People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.

Salma Hayek

#3. I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

Jimmy Carr

#4. 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

#5. I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

Salma Hayek

#6. I don't have an accent. Northerners just talk funny.

Lili St. Crow

#7. 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

#8. I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

Peter Sis

#9. I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

Roselyn Sanchez

#10. I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Christa B. Allen

#11. I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

#12. I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

Eiza Gonzalez

#13. Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Lev Grossman

#14. I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

James Carr

#15. My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

John Key

#16. When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

Damian Lewis

#17. I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

Amy Adams

#18. I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

Ellen Page

#19. At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#20. The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.

Dave Barry

#21. He hums a little. He's a really old guy with an English accent, he might have a goatee, and he'll definitely be carrying around a really thick, boring book. You might be able to pry it from his decaying hands and beat him back to death with it. Or maybe just reading it to him would work.

Kasie West

#22. I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Poppy Montgomery

#23. My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

#24. I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

Anthony Hopkins

#25. I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Eva Mendes

#26. I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

Mark Twain

#27. It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

Odeya Rush

#28. Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you've got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

Deb Caletti

#29. I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

Nick Offerman

#30. 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

#31. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell

#32. I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#33. No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

Jandy Nelson

#34. Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

Oliver Sacks

#35. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

Ryan Hackney

#36. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Brandon Routh

#37. I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

Salma Hayek

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

Dinesh D'Souza

#39. I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Brendan Gleeson

#40. If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

Goran Visnjic

#41. If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

Antonio Banderas

#42. I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

Lennox Lewis

#43. What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

Jason Alexander

#44. They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

Rita Moreno

#45. I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

Marsha Thomason

#46. I have a three-piece suit. I'm an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I'm probably the killer.

Mads Mikkelsen

#47. My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

#48. Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Michael Caine

#49. So, the thing is, my dad, the immigrant, is really, really disappointed that I have an allergy. A peanut allergy. Because immigrants do not believe in allergies. I swear to God, ask any brown person with an accent that you see and they'll tell you that allergies are some New World shit.

Jade Chang

#50. Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

Jay Leno

#51. For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

Chris Hemsworth

#52. It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

Sofia Vergara

#53. Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!'
'Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?'
'If the shoe fits.'
'Sheesh, I hate tall girls.

Joss Stirling

#54. We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

Henry A. Kissinger

#55. I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

Robin Williams

#56. Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

Zedd

#57. I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Corey Stoll

#58. Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl