Top 100 Quotes About Accents
#1. 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
#2. If I only could communicate in sign language, I couldn't visit other deaf people overseas because I'd be worried I couldn't understand their accents.
David McMullen-Sullivan
#3. I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
Jessica Chastain
#4. England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.
Stephen Daldry
#5. She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.
Albert Finney
#6. Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.
Madawi Al-Rasheed
#7. I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
Gary Carr
#8. There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.
Erica Schroeder
#10. When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.
Nick Park
#11. A driver who thinks stop signs are suggestions and red lights are decorative accents.
Hailey Edwards
#12. Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth ... a unique fashion sense ... In MEN ... a unique nose ... or accents ...
Emmy Rossum
#13. To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
Laura Donnelly
#14. [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Margaret Mitchell
#15. Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
Rachel Bilson
#16. My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
Rebel Wilson
#17. I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
Callan McAuliffe
#18. Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Lord Byron
#19. I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
Diane Ladd
#20. If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
John Singer Sargent
#21. Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.
Kirk Hammett
#22. In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
Maisie Williams
#24. Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.
Margot Robbie
#25. 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
#26. Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper
Evelyn Waugh
#27. Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more - how do you say? - pop-oo-laaarrrity.
Sofia Vergara
#28. I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#29. Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
Ben Mendelsohn
#30. Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
Theodore Bikel
#31. Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.
Harvey Dunn
#32. I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
Viola Davis
#33. The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
Vera Wang
#34. It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.
Iwan Rheon
#35. Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.
William Jones
#36. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
Christiane Amanpour
#38. In Australia, kids play in American accents.
Yael Stone
#39. I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'
Natasha Leggero
#40. I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.
A.K. Nicholas
#41. I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#42. We got hard hearts, she said with an accent that wasn't really any particular accent at all. She wasn't good at accents.
Lorrie Moore
#43. I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.
Chelsea Handler
#44. Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.
Margaret Mitchell
#45. I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.
Jenny Slate
#46. I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.
Kevin Zegers
#47. Holden always found it strangely disconcerting when an exaggerated Texas drawl came from someone his brain said should be speaking with Punjabi accents. And
James S.A. Corey
#48. The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
Joel Edgerton
#49. I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
Nasim Pedrad
#50. She had always been a chameleon, taking on accents and manners suited to her circumstance, but now she felt as though she had changed into something new, and she couldn't change back.
Robert Goolrick
#51. It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.
Martin Henderson
#53. Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
Maeve Binchy
#54. German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.
Janeane Garofalo
#55. I don't spill my drinks on just any man, you know." She touched his cheek. "only dashing shark lovers with pantydropping accents.
Ophelia London
#56. When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
Gavin DeGraw
#57. I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.
Kris Holden-Ried
#58. Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
Christopher Walken
#59. I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.
Christopher Fowler
#60. Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
Martin Freeman
#61. We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.
Mia Wasikowska
#62. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
Emily Mortimer
#63. After the welcome home barbecue, Candice had said, People here aren't that different, they just have accents. But if she could hear this, how their plan was being twisted, it would rock her little white-girl world, as Louis had always called it.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#64. I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
Jacki Weaver
#65. At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.
Joan Rivers
#66. We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw
#67. I hate Risk. I have for many years now. I hate that you still like Risk. I hate that you guilt me into playing with you because no one else will. I hate that you do the accents of the countries you're attacking from. And I hate that you wear a beret every time we play. God, do I hate the beret.
Colin Nissan
#68. The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments
Charles-Auguste De Beriot
#69. Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn't miss a word.
Heather Davis
#70. London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
G-Eazy
#71. Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#72. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy
#73. I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Wallace Stevens
#75. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
#76. That accents of the hero's self-consciousness are really objectified and that the work itself observes a distance between the hero and the author. If the umbilical cord uniting the hero to his creator is not cut, then what we have is not a work of art but a personal document. Dostoevsky's
Mikhail Bakhtin
#77. I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.
Kevin McKidd
#78. Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Ann Courtney
#79. Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#80. Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
Carla Gugino
#81. Um, thanks, she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn't to say Rose wasn't a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.
Richelle Mead
#82. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
#83. I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
Austin Butler
#84. 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
#85. I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
Jamie Bamber
#86. I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.
Stephen Graham
#87. 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
#88. We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
Anna Paquin
#89. Their accents must have been hard for her to follow, and their faces, matted under the grime, were haunted by a permanent wariness, a mixture of anger and fear.
Anne Perry
#90. It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#91. All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.
Alice McDermott
#92. Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.
Roy Blount Jr.
#94. I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.
Margot Robbie
#95. I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.
Jenny Hval
#96. Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
John Crowe Ransom
#97. I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.
Sundra Oakley
#98. People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.
Dominic Purcell
#99. I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.
Nicki Minaj
#100. I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Ruth Negga
