Accents Quotes - Page 2

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

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

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.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.

I can do accents really well.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

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.