Accents Quotes

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy

Pain, Both, Tongue

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh

Learning, After, Difficult

I can do accents really well.
Jordin Sparks

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
Jeremy Renner

Great, Wrong, Tell

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.
Nicki Minaj

Life, Different, Through

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne

Around, Walk, Talking

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
Robert Carlyle

Love, Change, Work

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
Emily Mortimer

Character, Through, Getting

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
Christiane Amanpour

Crazy, American, Knows

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
Gavin DeGraw

Great, War, Hero

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
Anna Paquin

History, Big, Learn

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
Rachel Bilson

Fun, Pieces, Leather

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.
Ben Barnes

Different, American, Actually

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina

History, Art, Dad

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
James Franco

Different, Irish, Tried

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
Carla Gugino

Love, Fun, Actor

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.
Stephen Daldry

Made, Around, Talking

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.
Nick Park

America, Strange, Put

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nature, Weep, Winds

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

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.
Albert Finney

Work, Good, Great

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.
Christopher Guest

Time, Child, Used

I love accents.
Claire Forlani

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.
John Shelton Reed

Music, History, Food

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
Callan McAuliffe

Change, Voice, Nobody

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.
Brion James

Fool, Job, Done

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.
Joel Edgerton

Funny, Yourself, Hard

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.
Penelope Keith

Love, Husband, Against

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
Viola Davis

Mom, Sometimes, Film

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
Alessandro Nivola

Able, Actor, Separate

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