Accent Quotes
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Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what they were looking for in this case — some sort of neutral accent that could be understood on both coasts and in different Hispanic communities: Puerto Ricans on the East Coast, Cubans in Fort Lauderdale and Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles. (Quote by - Jorge Ramos)
If something has gone wrong, we say it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent. (Quote by - Neil Warnock)
I used to go to auditions with an American accent, but now I don't - so they know where I'm from. (Quote by - Kimberley Davies)
I wasn`t allowed to do anything quirky, or to have an interesting accent. So the challenge lay in making her as interesting as I could without making her unusual. And that was hard. (Quote by - Melanie Lynskey)
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds. (Quote by - Ivan Illich)
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. (Quote by - Lee Strasberg)
What fortitude the Soul contains, / That it can so endure / The accent of a coming Foot-- / The opening of a Door. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Another good thing which pleases me about taking this job is that my five-year-old son will grow up with a Geordie accent. (Quote by - Graeme Souness)
Accent your positive and delete your negative. (Quote by - Donna Karan)
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
I really didn`t have to work, shall we say, with "Star Trek." It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there was Scotty. It`s like I tell people what you see in Scotty is 99% James Doohan and 1% accent. (Quote by - James Doohan)
If companies work with outsourcers to build a structure that requires accent neutralization, cultural affinity, and a company product background -- if it makes the investment in their people -- then the performance could be good. But if they are merely going to a lowest-cost location, to an area that has already been mined for agents with English proficiency, then their customer service will falter. (Quote by - Elizabeth Herrell)
George worked with me a lot, on changing my voice and my movement and the way I carried myself. We worked on this accent that . (Quote by - kinda goes to old, older generations of actresses who used kind of an unidentify. (Quote by - Natalie Portman)
The culture is making everybody afraid — everybody that speaks with an accent, everybody that looks different. (Quote by - Eva Castillo)
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit. (Quote by - Martin Henderson)
A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style. (Quote by - Casey Affleck)
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. (Quote by - Kate Nash)
I`ve always had this fascination with the movie business. It`s always been a passion for me. I decided that I wanted to come here because this is where most movies are made. This is the town for it..to play Americans. I feel like my accent is good enough. (Quote by -Oliver James)
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. (Quote by - Leonardo Dicaprio)
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. (Quote by - Brendan Francis Behan)
I personally am not conscious of my accent. (Quote by - Jared Diamond)
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent. (Quote by - Hartland de Montarville Molson)
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent. (Quote by - Sinead O'Connor)
Much of it is established by social and economic order, But on those levels, both black and white speakers share a close accent. (Quote by - David Barry)
If he doesn't want to match the girl, or he can't, then he'll get silver to accent her dress. So, the silver vest and ties are always the first to go. (Quote by - Ellen Wallace)
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent. (Quote by - Cleo Moore)
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Who happen to speak with an accent, a southern accent. (Quote by - Jeff Sessions)
My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me. (Quote by - Rafael Benitez)
You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!(Quote by - Josh Hartnett)
I didn't even know she was an immigrant, she has no accent. She's married to an American citizen. She's an honors student. She applied for a green card because she wanted to work for the American government some day. Instead, they led her away in shackles and put her in solitary confinement. (Quote by - Robert Saunders)
I still get that. I tell them they are the ones with the accent, not me. (Quote by - Sean McCurdy)
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America`s most precious discoveries and possessions. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I had a great dialect coach and he told me there`s always one moment when you get something. He said, "Do your Texan accent for me," when I had learned it from a tape. He said, "It`s too English!". I. (Quote by - Michael Cain)
And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make. (Quote by - Herbie Hancock)
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. (Quote by - John Mahoney)
It wasn`t exactly a mistake, but if there`s anything I regret, it`s probably having disguised my own native accent. Actors of my generation all tended to speak RP [received pronunciation]. Of course, it`s all different now and drama students are encourage. (Quote by - Ian McKellen)
I'm trying to learn a little bit but I must admit I have a horrible accent. I mess up the tones. I don't always get the meaning across. My sentences sound like questions. (Quote by - Tara Kirk)
A man could say anything to me in a French accent and it would send me ga-ga. (Quote by - Josie D'Arby)
Never trust a southerner. No, I`m kidding. They`re wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he`s an evil kind of crazy man who`s righteous. Fear the righteous. (Quote by - Nathan Fillion)
I remember the first time I ever drove through deep, southern West Virginia. I couldn't even understand the accent of the people there, you know. They couldn't understand me. West Virginia, actually, is a state that's made up of some different kinds of communities. (Quote by - Robert Grimes)
If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don`t think it`s easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself. (Quote by - Lucas Black)
OK. Think real person; confident, open, honest, informal, down to earth, approachable, believable, not stuffy, warm, soothing, inviting tone of voice. Play with your regional accent. You're a person, not a machine - it's you, Martine Brown, a person, which is why we want a regional accent. (Quote by - Holly Baldwin)
In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture. (Quote by - Valerie Harper)
It appears the two terrorists spoke broken Hindi with a Kashmiri accent. That gives us reason to suspect they were Kashmiri militants. (Quote by - Navneet Sikera)
If I had to pick the best Arabic commentator, it would have to be Ashraf Shaker [Egyptian commentator on ART] due to him not talking so much about irrelevant stuff. And he has a nice accent and soft tone which is easy on the ear. (Quote by - Sarah Negm)
It's going to be the battle of the accents. I very much look forward to debating him. (Quote by - Arianna Huffington)
I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought I was Welsh. (Quote by - Kirby Heyborne)
So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors?' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different. (Quote by - Bruce Beresford)
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn`t have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something. (Quote by - Antonio Banderas)
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me. I grew up in Mexico, not the US, and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset. (Quote by - Salma Hayek)
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster. (Quote by - David Arquette)
I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary. (Quote by - Robert Carlyle)
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. (Quote by - Maria Grazia Cucinotta)
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent. (Quote by - Kate Beckinsale)
I find comfort in his appearance being consistent with my imagined image from the biblical story and the strong features, combined with a non-squinting, open-eyed, kindly, compassionate expression. There have been many movies with him cast as a very White, blue-eyed blond with English accent, for we commonly want to recast our God in our image, instead of vice versa. That's a good reminder to me not to do this myself. God in Christ is totally other. (Quote by - Jim Adams)
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia(Quote by - Shakira)
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. (Quote by - Margaret Courtney)
The most effective form of birth control known to man is a Bronx accent [that's a little bit harsh on people from the Bronx isn't it Lewis. (Quote by - Lewis Grizzard)
He had an accent that carried the longing cadence of the exile. (Quote by - Peter Evans)
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games. (Quote by - Cleo Moore)
I sat in the stands all week and perfected my Canadian accent. (Quote by - Klete Keller)
I don't know if it was her accent or if she just didn't have anything to say. But if that's the reason she's playing better, than that's fine with me. (Quote by - Erin Lawless)
I have a great accent because I grew up hearing it in the neighborhood. But I have no idea what I`m saying. (Quote by - Jessica Alba)
People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos. (Quote by - Salma Hayek)
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
