Accents Quotes - Page 6

• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  Valerie Harper

  Character, Cities, Body

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• The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

  Sharlto Copley

  Character, Critical

  Source: collider.com

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• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  Sam Neill

  Trying, Fit, Playgrounds

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• My accent's become a weird hybrid.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Hybrid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Actors, Able, Stills

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• I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.

  Kevin McKidd

  Home, School, Kids

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

  Kevin McKidd

  Character, Focus, Littles

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, People, Everyday

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• I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

  Stana Katic

  Song, Character, Voice

  "Stana Katic: I'm a high stakes kind of girl". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Play, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

  Johnny Depp

  Fall, Numbers, Challenges

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Interview ALICE IN WONDERLAND". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 3, 2010.

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• It can get a bit boring working on accents.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Boring, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

  Joey McIntyre

  Scottish, Know How, Knows

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• The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Children, Wind, Baptism

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• Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

  Theodore Bikel

  Very Good

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• All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Cat, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Different, Wonder, Treated

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• At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

  Anais Nin

  Names, Trying, Add

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 7 (1966-1974)". Book by Anais Nin, 1981.

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• I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

  James Nesbitt

  Mickey, Irish Accent, Worst

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

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Copying, Literature, Scripts

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• I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Talking, Kind, Feels

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2010.

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• If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

  Goran Visnjic

  Guy, Come Up, Eastern

  Radio Times, April 2007.

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• My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Ideas, No Idea

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• The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Mind, Tasks

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

  Ricky Whittle

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

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