Quotes About American Accents

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Yael Stone

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Neil Simon

#10. 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

#11. I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

Jamie Bamber

#12. I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

Cillian Murphy

#13. Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Alison Krauss

#14. 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

#15. There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Harold Macmillan

#16. The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Dorothea Dix

#17. 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

#18. Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

Daniel Libeskind

#19. 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

#20. The NSA is correct, 1984 is now.

Michael Gurnow

#21. 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

#22. Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Gilles Marini

#23. 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

#24. And for Narnie, hours without them went by, and then days, and then weeks. And in between those seconds and minutes and hours and day and weeks was the most acute sense of loneliness she'd ever experienced

Melina Marchetta

#25. I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

Harvey Pekar

#26. 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

#27. But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

David Selby

#28. him talking in accents as unmistakably American as had been

William West Winter