Accents Quotes - Page 16

• I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Dad, Germany, Elements

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• I never really had a strong accent.

  Daniel Craig

  Strong

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• 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

  Class, People, Guy

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• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Decision, Literature

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• I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Kids, Voice, Long

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• I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Guy, Comforting

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• If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

  Emily Blunt

  America, Trying, Energy

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• The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

  Eric Bana

  Scratches, Familiar, Israeli

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• Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

  Lev Grossman

  Mother, Thinking, Facts

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• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  Salma Hayek

  Speak English, Long, Mexico

  "Oprah Talks to Salma Hayek". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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• My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

  Hunter Hayes

  Mom, Guy, Louisiana

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• I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Actors, Nervous

  "Alan Rickman & Rupert Grint On ‘CBGB,’ Reuniting Post-‘Potter’ And Favorite Halloween Costumes". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2013.

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

  Christina Ricci

  Actors, Conscious, Physicality

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• I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Play, Would Be

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• I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

  Ellen Page

  Jobs, Actors, Sometimes

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2011.

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• 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, Empires, Sometimes

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• I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

  Denis O'Hare

  Detroit, Born, Missouri

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• I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Forever, Care

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

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• I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

  Nicki Minaj

  Rap, Average, Creative

  "Nicki Minaj Talks About Being an Openly Bisexual Rapper, Being a Role Model to Young Girls and More…". Gossip On This Interview, gossiponthis.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

  Eva Mendes

  Speak English, World, Speak

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

  Colum McCann

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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

  Heath Ledger

  Roles, Australian

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

  Diane Kruger

  Want, Fascinating

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• I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, School, Black

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• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  Rachel Johnson

  Mean, Sight, People

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