Accent Quotes

• If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Language
  • Daughter
  • Jewish

• I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Clothes
  • Liverpool
  • Haircut

• The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • American
  • Southern
  • Specific

• People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • People
  • American
  • English

• We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • Country
  • Truth

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

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Happy
  • Name
  • Pronounced

• I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • English
  • Actor
  • Newcastle

• Katharine Hepburn was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Attractive
  • Accent
  • Opinionated

• I think the Birmingham accent has a lot to do with that, it certainly doesn't help you when you're trying to put a point across. We also set ourselves up for it sometimes by getting drunk and doing stupid things, but I thought that was what rock 'n' roll was all about.

  

  Clint Mansell
  • Stupid
  • Drunk
  • Rock N Roll

• I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • English
  • Accent
  • Obstacle

• What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Naive
  • Accent
  • Stoke

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

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Cool
  • Thing
  • 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.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • I Love
  • Irish
  • Virginia

• The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

  

  Sharlto Copley
  • Character
  • Accent
  • Informs

• The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

  

  Arrigo Sacchi
  • Work
  • Results
  • Accent

• Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'

  

  Franchesca Ramsey
  • Growing
  • Because
  • Constantly

• I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Clear
  • Accent
  • Diction

• 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
  • Speak
  • Spanish
  • Accent

• Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Girl
  • Accent

• I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

  

  Eva Green
  • Ambition
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'

  

  Sasha Jackson
  • American
  • Roles
  • Accent

• I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

  

  Steve Valentine
  • Proud
  • Accent
  • Scottish

• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

  

  Nick Park
  • British
  • Charm
  • Accent

• I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • English
  • Speak
  • Spanish

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