When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

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.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

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.

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.

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

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.

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.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

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've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

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.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it.

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

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