Quotes About English Accents

#1. Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.

Colum McCann

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Austin Butler

#8. 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

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

Mark Twain

#10. The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

Robert B. Parker

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

Leonardo DiCaprio

#12. Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

Joyce Meyer

#13. Love shouldn't change you - it should invigorate you. You know, make you a better version of yourself, not someone else.

Carolyn Healy

#14. 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

#15. Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. 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

#17. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

Anne Rice

#18. They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.

Emily Thorne

#19. My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Pink

#20. Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Joey McIntyre

#21. You know that it never has been easy
Whether you do or do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities
Or stick to some straighter line.

Joni Mitchell

#22. Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

Margaret Atwood

#23. 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

#24. 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