Quotes About Different Accents

#1. I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

#2. 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

#3. At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

Joan Rivers

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

Austin Butler

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. He and I speak the same language ... we just have different accents.

Jenn Cooksey

#10. They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

Deanna Raybourn

#11. I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

Sarah Snook

#12. I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

David Tennant

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Robert Carlyle

#17. The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

Malachy McCourt

#18. Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

George Saintsbury

#19. Jacob went to the sink and held his hands under the tap. He splashed cold water on his face and formed another ab-flashing maneuver that would bring every card-carrying queer to his knees.

Jordan Castillo Price

#20. If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.

Chester Brown

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

Jamie Bamber

#22. 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

#23. I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

Ruth Negga

#24. 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

#25. I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.

Anastasia

#26. I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

Jacki Weaver

#27. 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

#28. I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

George R R Martin

#29. The man who puts into the marriage only half
of what he owns will get that out.

Ronald Reagan

#30. I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Pierre Bayle

#31. 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

Jean Vanier

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

Gilles Marini

#33. New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

Natalie Portman

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. I am a question mark aimed at an answer.

Ben H. Winters

#38. 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

#39. Miko: You would stand between me and this evil murderer?

Hinjo: I'll stand between any two murderers I wish, thanks.

Rich Burlew

#40. 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

#41. 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