Accents Quotes - Page 2

• I can do accents really well.

  Jordin Sparks

  Wells, Can Do, I Can

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• Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

  Mike Myers

  Years, Body, Mets

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Southern, Sound

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 4, 2005.

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Farewell, Half

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Manners, Terrible

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sexy, Sound, Boring

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• I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

  Geri Halliwell

  Complaining, Sometimes, Reservations

  "This much I know". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

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• Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
  Another year has burst upon the shore
  Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
  Wandering in broken accents in the air,
  Are dying to an echo.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Echoes, Air

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• 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

  Enough, Know Yourself, Tricky

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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• I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Fake, Hussein

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• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  Nasim Pedrad

  School, Names, Parent

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• I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Acting, Elocution, Lessons

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• Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wind, Soothing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Ifs

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• The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Art, Giving

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

  Albert Finney

  Fun

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• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

  Ivan Illich

  Art, Learning, People

  Ivan Illich (1974). “Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation”

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

  James Franco

  Italian, Mcdonalds, Different

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• But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

  Hugh Grant

  Wise, Way, Genius

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• I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

  Brion James

  Parrots, Picks, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

  Nick Park

  Cute, Strange, Kind

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• 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

  War, Hero, Hands

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• To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

  Radha Mitchell

  Honest, Speak, Easier

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