Top 100 Quotes About Accents
#1. It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.
John Steinbeck
#2. Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
Chuck Inglish
#3. I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
Denis O'Hare
#4. It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare
#5. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.
David H. Millar
#6. I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!
Fabio Capello
#7. My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
Brion James
#8. Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
Claude Debussy
#9. History flung the accents on our names into the water when it took us across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago.
Kim Thuy
#10. After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
John Lennon
#12. I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
Jackie Earle Haley
#13. It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
Odeya Rush
#14. I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.
Craig Ferguson
#15. I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.
Danielle De Niese
#16. [Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.
Lauren Bacall
#18. Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
Edwin Newman
#19. 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
#21. I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
James Franco
#22. I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.
Adam Croasdell
#23. The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments ... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.
Hector Berlioz
#24. I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
Jamie Bell
#25. My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
Ashley Bell
#26. He spoke in one of the American accents; Lydia couldn't distinguish among them. To her they all sounded dry and tinny. Almost quack-like.
Gregory Maguire
#27. The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.
Carter Jenkins
#28. You can always tell a rich New York girl from a poor one. And you can tell a rich Boston girl from a poor one. After all, that's what accents and manners are there for. But to the native New Yorker, the midwestern girls all looked and sounded the same. Sure, the
Amor Towles
#29. He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#30. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
William Shakespeare
#31. I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
Vicky McClure
#32. Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear," Wayne said. "Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh
Brandon Sanderson
#33. I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.
Sharlto Copley
#34. I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
John Ashbery
#35. I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
#36. Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
Jeremy Renner
#37. Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.
Thomas Hardy
#38. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices.
Sharlto Copley
#39. I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.
Marcus Mumford
#40. I had loved Portland. It was a clean city, with weather so delicate that at night you had to look at the streetlights to tell whether it was raining or snowing. Everything was heavier near Boston: air, accents, women.
Elizabeth McCracken
#41. I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.
Moshe Kasher
#42. I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
Summer Phoenix
#43. I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.
Bill Bryson
#44. The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Here was a person for whom the word 'pen' had two syllables. He people undoubtedly drank from clay jugs and hollered for Paw when the vittles were ready
so who was she to advise me on anything?
David Sedaris
#45. I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet
#46. I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.
Ben Barnes
#47. I'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.
Kayla Ewell
#48. This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.
Lauren DeStefano
#49. Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
Charles Churchill
#50. Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.
Al Jarreau
#52. I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
Penelope Keith
#53. When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.
Donald Rumsfeld
#54. If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
Stefon Harris
#55. I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
Ray Stevenson
#56. I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.
Jojo Moyes
#57. I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
#58. I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.
Albert Finney
#59. Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne
#61. 40 THINGS THAT PROVE GOD CARES ABOUT GIRLS, including He made babies so cute! and He invented Australian accents! and There are no diets in heaven!
Kathleen Hale
#62. When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
Hannah Simone
#63. I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
Jaime King
#64. I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
Christopher Guest
#65. Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
Joey McIntyre
#66. I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.
Sharlto Copley
#67. Harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed [ ... ] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes
Plato
#68. How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare
#69. Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.
Charles Simeon
#70. Can I take a moment here to tell you both how cute your accents are when you're angry?"
Wesley and his father both looked at her, Wesley in shock, his father in disgust.
"Okay, that's a 'no' then. Carry on.
Tiffany Reisz
#71. Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
Elvis Costello
#73. Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.
Colum McCann
#74. I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
Mia Wasikowska
#75. I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.
Emily Mortimer
#76. The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.
La Rouchefoucauld
#77. 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
#78. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?
Julian Fellowes
#79. I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.
Colleen Atwood
#80. Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
James Baldwin
#81. I believe it is important to preserve dialects as well as the regional accents of an area. Oral tradition is still necessary and by using dialectal WORDS as the mortar, we can connect future generations with their heritage.
Patricia H. Graham
#82. I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.
Geri Halliwell
#83. Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.
Mike Myers
#84. The accent is a really hard thing for me. It reminds me of my family and my childhood, but it's one of the worst-sounding accents out there. I love Boston, but we sound like idiots.
Amy Poehler
#85. So I captured Italy ... but the only thing I hear from him is ze singing und ze laughing und vierd accents.
-Germany
Hidekaz Himaruya
#86. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
Anne Rice
#87. Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.
Nick Nolte
#88. Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
John Ashbery
#89. Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.
Toks Olagundoye
#90. I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'
Rebecca Mader
#91. The only thing Americans love more than Walmart and firearms (and buying firearms at Walmart) is accents.
Brian Moylan
#92. In the uproar, the confusion
of accents and inflections
how will you hear me when I open my mouth?
Look for me, one of the drab population
under fissured edifices, fractured
artifices. Make my various
names flock overhead,
I will follow you.
Li-Young Lee
#93. I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.
Stana Katic
#94. I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
James Nesbitt
#95. Why do accents make a guy extra attractive?
Jen Calonita
#96. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents
A. Lee Martinez
#97. The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.
Joe Hill
#98. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina
#99. Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
Ashley Jensen
#100. I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.
Wyclef Jean
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