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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.
I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.
For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.
I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.
There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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.
For me, there's bands like Frightened Rabbit and The View, and they've all had that Scottish accent. It's just class to hear it.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.
When I bagged the role of Swadheenta Ramakrishnan, I was expected to learn Tamil. I think getting the accent was the toughest thing.
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Guru had such a different voice from most people. Plus he had a Boston accent! So, I always made sure the beats were tailored to him.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.
I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
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.
I remember going to Birmingham City matches as a kid and there were these other kids in Small Heath who had their own odd, partly Scouse accent.
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
I still have that South Indian accent. But I am working on it. Hindi audiences should feel that I am speaking like them and should relate to me.