Accents Quotes

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

  Toni Collette

  Character, Way, Entry

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• When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

  Fernando Lamas

  Mean, Language, Speak

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• 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, Tangible, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Goran Visnjic

  Want, Loses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

  Vivien Leigh

  Language, Found, Difficult

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• I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Speak English, Traveled

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  Claire Forlani

  Depends

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

  Sean Connery

  Departure

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• I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

  Amy Adams

  Character, Voice, Wish

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Southern, Comedy

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• You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

  Joe Biden

  Racism, Racist, Dunkin Donuts

  "Biden explains Indian-American remarks". www.nbcnews.com. July 7, 2006.

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• I personally am not conscious of my accent.

  Jared Diamond

  Conscious

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• 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

  Class, Want, England

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• Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

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• Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Sound, Rhyming, Uniforms

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• Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

  Jason Mraz

  Voice, People, Looks

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• I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

  Josh Holloway

  Trying, Buffalo

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• Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, People, Singers

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• 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

  Girl, Dog, Teenage

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• 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

  Girl, Country, Bullying

  "Nicki Minaj: Agent Provocateur" by James Patrick Herman, www.elle.com. March 14, 2013.

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• 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

  Jobs, Done, Dialect

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• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  Fay Wray

  Work, People, Done

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• Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Speak English, People

  "Readers recommend: songs sung with accents" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2015.

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

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Trying, Firsts, Affected

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• 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.

  Kirk Hammett

  Use, Aspect

  The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. October, 1991.

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