Accents Quotes - Page 18

• David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

  Michael Nyqvist

  Directors, Want, Curious

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• What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

  Robbie Williams

  Girl, Voice, Spokes

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• The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider

  Strong, Class, Heaven

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• If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Talking, Class, Ideas

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• For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

  Michael Caine

  House, Cider, England

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• I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

  Henry Cho

  People, Southern, Asian

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• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  Kate McKinnon

  Real, Talking, Voice

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

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• I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

  Anna Torv

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings would be or something like that, but there is a very sophisticated air about the Asgardians[?], you know, in their dialogue, and - hold on. Okay. Um, and I'm doing an English accent in the movie.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Thinking, Air, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

  Chelsea Handler

  Kids, Thinking, Would Be

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• I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jokes, Knows, I Can

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Southern, Comedian

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• When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Pockets, Zips, Knows

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is my daughter can do an English accent. I don't know how she learned this.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Daughter, Wife, House

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Dublin, Lasts

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• Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Eccentricity

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• My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

  Michael Caine

  Texas, Next, Clue

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• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  People, Doe, Mouths

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• I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Two, Flying, Shy

  "I love Salman so much: SRK". Interview with Malavika Sangghvi, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 2, 2005.

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• Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.

  Eve Hewson

  Virginia, Sound, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.

  Jim Cummings

  Falling In Love, Stars, Princess

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• I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

  Fabio Capello

  People, League, Progress

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• It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and you have to represent that character well and I think it's just an evolution there. Using the accent and speaking the lines with the accent in fact opens the door to who the character really is.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Falling In Love, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.

  Dave Barry

  Stars, Queens, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.270, Ballantine Books

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• Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

  John Updike

  Ugly, Gorgeous

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.118, Random House

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