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I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.
When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.
Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.
I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
It can get a bit boring working on accents.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
It's easier to act in your own accent.
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.
Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn't miss a word.
I personally am not conscious of my accent.
Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.
I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.
The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.
I don't have a good British accent.
Accents don't show up in music.
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
I like a New York accent.
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.
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.
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
I never really had a strong accent.
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.
I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'
No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very British. I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.
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.
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.
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
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.
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.
Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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.
The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.
I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
I still keep my accent.
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
Why do accents make a guy extra attractive?
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Americans are suckers for an English accent.
I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.
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.
I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.
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.
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.
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
He had an accent. A British one. There was something about a British accent that had always made me quiver deep down inside and touched me in places a regular New England accent just couldn't reach.
The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.
I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.
There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.
Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.
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.
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?'
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
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.
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.
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.
I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.
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.
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear," Wayne said. "Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
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.
When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
(On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.
The Cockney accent was almost impenetrable. *Nothing* was "nuffin," and aitches were dropped from and attached to the wrong words, and some of the vowels seemed to have arrived from another planet.
I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over.