Accents Quotes - Page 22

• I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

  Rebel Wilson

  Song, Rap, Dope

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• Of little use, the man you may suppose,
  Who says in verse what others say in prose;
  Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,
  And (though no soldier) useful to the state,
  What will a child learn sooner than a song?
  What better teach a foreigner the tongue?
  What's long or short, each accent where to place
  And speak in public with some sort of grace?

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Children, Men

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.156

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• I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

  Austin Butler

  Girl, Different, British

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• There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

  Piers Morgan

  Thinking, Advantage, British

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

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• Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

  Sofia Vergara

  Girl, Giving, Comedy

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• I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Art, Three, Pieces

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• Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

  Christina Stead

  Gentleman, Way, Outsiders

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.285, The Miegunyah Press

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• On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Running, Hands, People

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• I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

  John Ashbery

  Speech, Ridiculous, Lost

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

  Michael Caine

  Mean, Class, Pie

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• Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

  Heinrich Heine

  Freedom, Liberty, Hebrew

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• It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
  It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
  This is the tragic accent of the scene.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rome, Speech, Poverty

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.283, Knopf

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• I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hearing, Comfortable

  "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.

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• We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Wise, Country, Lying

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• The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  "The World's Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

  Stephen Fry

  Cutting, Glasses, Fool

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• If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

  Antonio Banderas

  Gone, England, Has Beens

  "Black And Blue". Interview with Evan Henerson, articles.sun-sentinel.com. October 28, 2005.

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• You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

  DJ Qualls

  Stupid, Opposites, People

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• I feel good about the fact that I finally found something I love. I never lived in one place for very long - that's the way my whole life has been. I was always packing and moving around, staying in Canada, Kentucky, Jersey, St. Louis - it all helped because I was always learning new accents, experiencing different environments.

  Tom Cruise

  Moving, Kentucky, Long

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

  Kayla Ewell

  Men, Sucker

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• Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids ... I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

  Margot Robbie

  Good Life, Kids, Years

  "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.

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• The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Way, Vikings, Norse

  "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Attention, Firsts

  "Quint kinda visits the set of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit!". Interview with Eric Vespe, www.aintitcool.com. January 7, 2014.

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• No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

  Benjamin Bratt

  World, Matter, Tongue

  Source: collider.com

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• In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.

  Paris Hilton

  Family Guy, Bed, My Favorite

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2010

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