Your Accent Quotes

#1. It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

Odeya Rush

#2. I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being ... improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.

Veronica Wolff

#3. My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.

Peter David

#4. When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

Freida Pinto

#5. I pushed him back with a finger. Your accent stinks. Go away until you get it right.

Kim Harrison

#6. As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Moran Atias

#7. Um....I love your accent, and your cock is magnificent, and if you don't put it in me soon I will cry and it'll ruin my makeup and it'll be all your fault, so please fuck me now, right now, this second, or I swear to God I will forget I'm the submissive in this relationship.

Tiffany Reisz

#8. Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

Martin Yan

#9. I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Yelawolf

#10. I hate when you play therapist. Especially with your accent. It makes everything you say sound so BBC.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.

Maya Rudolph

#12. Got anything we can cull the herd with?"
Nick stared at Zane for a few seconds. "I never realized how disturbing your accent is until you use cow analogies."
"Yeah okay, say 'car'.

Abigail Roux

#13. I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Sting

#14. You're pretty sexy when you're domestic." I told him, running a hand up the back of his thigh.
"If you think this is hot, you should see me change a diaper."
"I have, actually: why do you think I married you? That and your accent. Oh and your giant penis.

Christina Lauren

#15. When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

Jose Andres

#16. An accent, obviously, it's to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you, I think.

David Tennant

#17. It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.

Penelope Cruz

#18. Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

Kevin Costner

#19. The main thing is always try to find different voices for yourself. If you're in your car just driving somewhere you can try to start thinking about a voice you might want to do, like try a British accent.

Ashly Burch

#20. I'm avampire. I havesecret powers ," he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, "Actually, your mom let me in.

Rachel Caine

#21. In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Roman Polanski

#22. I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.

Ajay Mehta

#23. I vant to zuk your blood." He waved his black gloved hands above his head as he tried out his awful Transylvanian accent. "You vish," She replied.

J.L. Bryan

#24. I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

Anna Torv

#25. For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

Allison Tolman

#26. I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there's a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it's cancer.

Bernie Siegel

#28. Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part ... I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.

Lena Dunham

#29. I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#30. Yeah? Well, you and your snooty, all-knowing witches have never been to the moon. My people have, because it was there and it was a good thing to do," Lily said in her best Boston accent. "So bite my scientist-loving ass.

Josephine Angelini

#31. I wasn't drunk," Alynwick grumbled. "I tchin' for a fight, aye, but no' drunk."
"Careful," Black said with some amusement, "your cultured English accent is giving way to your heathen Highland one.

Charlotte Featherstone

#32. I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

Robert Pattinson

#33. Your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine

Erica O'Rourke

#34. Your speech so halting and unguarded
is the only thing left
with which to content myself.
But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

Eugenio Montale

#35. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.

Ernessa T. Carter

#36. Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Donna Karan

#37. I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

Holly Black

#38. I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

#39. You'll make a sucky father someday," I tell him with a smile. "I feel sorry for the kid that doesn't get to burst into light to get out of your house."
He chokes out a laugh. "Is it my sarcasm?"
"Definitely. And that obnoxious accent.

Suzanne Young

#40. When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

Donald Rumsfeld

#41. Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

Thomm Quackenbush

#42. As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Chris Bohjalian

#43. Why must you choose the only dignified person in this crew as the butt of your mockery?"
"Because, my dear man," Ham said, imitating Breeze's accent, "you are, by far, the best butt we have.

Brandon Sanderson

#44. It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

Joss Stone

#45. He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood" in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."!

Rachel Caine

#46. What's with savage humans always wanting to cannibalize us?" Jaden asks as she runs past Summer to check for any more of the Tainted around the corner.
"They want to suck your blood," Rob says in a Romanian accent.
Jaden snorts. Too bad humor won't help them out of this mess.

Laura Kreitzer

#47. I had to do a Northern England accent once, and I didn't have much time, so I went and pored through YouTube. There are all sorts of resources out there. The Internet has made that much more affordable. Don't break your neck to spend your money.

Rose McIver

#48. One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Anish Kapoor

#49. It's easier to act in your own accent.

James Nesbitt

#50. I'd lose that smile if I were you." I jingle the car keys in his face. "Your life is in my hands, lest you forget " My imitation of his cockney accent is actually spot-on, I let myself bask in it,

A.G. Howard

#51. Don't ever trust a guy with a Southern accent, a lazy smile, and a casual stance, because he's about to sneak his way into your panties without even trying.

J.C. Reed

#52. No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

Benjamin Bratt

#53. He says in a strong German accent, "Half and half, eh?"
Nesbitt laughs. "You got that right: half human, half animal."
Gabriel says, "And always pissed off - though I can't imagine why when he's in your company, Nesbitt.

Sally Green

#54. That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.

Sophie Hannah

#55. I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

Taylor Spreitler

#56. My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

Stephen Mangan