Accent Quotes

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
Erma Bombeck

Woman, Buy, Cosmetic

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Heart, Speech

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

Mind, Heart, Country

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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dreams, Great, Successful

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry

Saying, May, Sometimes

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.
Joe Biden

Moving, Cannot, Growth

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
Jeff Foxworthy

Wanted, Used, Heard

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
Michael Caine

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Speak, German, Germans

Accent your positive and delete your negative.
Donna Karan

Positive, Negative, Delete

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Sting

Change, Learned, Class

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
Christina Ricci

Change, Actor, Unless

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
Ralph Fiennes

Struggle, Words, Start

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
Ryan Gosling

Thought, Tough, Guys

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
Salma Hayek

Mean, Mexican, Latin

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
Jessica Simpson

Good, Sounds, Southern

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

Someone, Hard, Terrible

I never really had a strong accent.
Daniel Craig

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Gary Oldman

Long, After, Sometimes

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.
Christian Bale

Time, Long, Before

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
Ellie Goulding

Wrong, Honest, American

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.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Through, Sun, Week

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

Role, Rare, Australian

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.
Diane Kruger

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

Hate, Before, American

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.
Marc Jacobs

Car, Down, Remember

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

Good, Try, American

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
Rachel McAdams

Men, Find, British

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
Sean Connery

Away, English, Departure

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