Accents Quotes - Page 12

• We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Australia, Challenges, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• [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

  Stronger, Attractive, Opinionated

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• Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.

  Nate Berkus

  Wall, Color, Needs

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• I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.

  Lake Bell

  Drama, School, Years

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

  Lake Bell

  Commit

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

  Lake Bell

  Drama, School, Years

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I'd never gotten to do an accent for anything that I've done, so that was really appealing because I love doing accents. Ever since I was a kid, I made it my business to try to mimic foreign accents, so it was really fun to be able to do that. I was really working on the accent to try to make it really good.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Fun, Kids, Trying

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

  John Lennon

  Rays, World, Firsts

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

  John Lennon

  Scene

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

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• If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Angel, Years

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• Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Australia, Culture, Television

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mom, Growing Up, Mexican

  "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Ego

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• We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wife, Three, Verbs

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• I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

  Hector Elizondo

  Speaks French, Difficult, Things To Do

  "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

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• As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Phones, Nba, Phone Calls

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• I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

  Chris Lilley

  Character, Play, One Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Travel, Home, Perfect

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• I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

  Adam Croasdell

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Sound, Mouths

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

  Jane Jacobs

  Beautiful, Art, Differences

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton of Holby Blue fame and pick up my dog and cuddle him, that's all that matters. I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.

  Joanna Page

  Dog, Husband, Home

  "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Dialect, Respectable

  Source: collider.com

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• No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Children, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.63

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