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I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.
I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.
I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!
When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.
I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.
I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
As I am a Bengali and am used to conversing in Bengali and English, I thought my Hindi would show an accent.
Actually, between Colombian and Mexican Spanish, there's not a huge difference, but it is a different accent.
As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person.
Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
I have a smaller bottom lip, but in 'Wheeler,' I had a lip over my lip. It's fat, and it helped with my accent.
My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.
Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.
Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
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.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.
There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.
I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.
I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'
When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.