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It's easier to act in your own accent.
— James Nesbitt
Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.
— Annalena McAfee
Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.
— Eric Wareheim
Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
— Jai Courtney
His accent was absolutely delicious and I didn't mind talking to him for a little while.
— Yolanda Olson
His accent was thick and British, the kind that makes North Americans feel slightly ashamed.
— Andrew Kaufman
Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.
— Ryan Cartwright
There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.
— Colum McCann
The man spoke with an accent, and though I couldn't exactly place it, I knew that he was poor. His voice had snakes in it. And dysentery, and mangoes.
— David Sedaris
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.
— Freddie Highmore
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
— Eva Mendes
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens
When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite love his accent.
— Paris Hilton
Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.
— John Kennedy Toole
I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.
— Sharlto Copley
Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
— Jonathan Lethem
For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
— Michael Caine
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
— Elmer Eric Schattschneider
I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.
— Rita Ora
I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. "That'll do, donkey," I said, in my best Scottish accent.
— H.D. Gordon
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
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
— Radha Mitchell
I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.
— India De Beaufort
Her soft spanish accent and her infinite arsenal of sighs.
— Kiersten White
Accent your positive and delete your negative.
— Donna Karan
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
Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:
— Ryan Hackney
Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.
— Janet Fitch
Outside of a French accent and maybe Italian, Able thought the sexiest accent had to be a soft, sophisticated Southern belle accent.
— Adam W. Jones
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
— Gemma Arterton
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
— Orlando Bloom
I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.
— Janeane Garofalo
It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.
— Martin Henderson
No one can understand my accent!
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
— Peter Sis
I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.
— Kimiko Glenn
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
— Tracey Ullman
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
— Heinrich Heine
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.
— James Carr
Apapa, Falyn, she scolded with a perfect Greek accent.
— Jamie McGuire
East Harlem accent:
— R.J. Palacio
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
— Elvis Costello
I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
— Summer Phoenix
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
— Dorothy Malone
I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.
— Janet Montgomery
I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.
— Melanie Lynskey
No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.
— Maya Rudolph
I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
— Lynn Samuels
He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.
— Natasha Pulley
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.
— Rebel Wilson
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
— Michael Flatley
I want to lick his accent right off his mouth,
— Robin Bielman
When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
— Blake Crouch
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
— Michael Caine
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
— Stephanie Perkins
Adrijana speaks Norwegian with an upper-class, west-end accent.
— Derek B. Miller
I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.
— Emily Mortimer
The female asked him, "Have you ever been bait? Well, besides jailbait. Rowr." "I can't say that I have, ma'am." Texan accent?
— Kresley Cole
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!
— Chris O'Dowd
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
— Toni Collette
I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over.
— Miranda July
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
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
— Gloria Swanson
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
— Nicki Minaj
When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.
— Donald Rumsfeld
It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn't miss a word.
— Heather Davis
I'm strong, fight to deat, ja?' I almost laughed at hearing a wolf accent through mindspeech.
— Chanda Hahn
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
— Deborah Kerr
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
You may rely on it," he (Tommasso) said with that exotic accent.
"Sorry, I don't speak Magic 8-Ball. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
"Sorry, I don't speak Magic 8-Ball. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.
— Colum McCann
It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.
— Salma Hayek
Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
— Rachael Ray
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
— Marsha Thomason
Thought you were making a James Band Joke. Hard to tell with that accent
— G. Norman Lippert
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
— Djimon Hounsou
It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes.
"And does the accent work on you? — Nichole Chase
"And does the accent work on you? — Nichole Chase
I am pleased, he said with a rich throaty accent. My heart melted. Simple as they were, those three little words meant the world to me.
— Red Phoenix