Southern Accent Quotes - Page 1

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
John Oliver / Comedian
Bags
Clubs
Southern
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Bag
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They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
Cleo Moore / Film Actress
Charmed
Southern
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
Jessica Simpson / Actress
Sound
Southern
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Thinking
Accent
Good Anything Think
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I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
Josh Lucas / Actor
Accents
Broken
Southern
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I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
Michael W. Smith / Musician
Southern Accent
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I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.
Leslie Jordan / Actor
Proud
Southern
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You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
Katy Mixon / Actress
Accents
Honey
Southern
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Shakespeare
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I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.
Ainsley Earhardt / Journalist
New York City
Southern Accent
Me City New
Accent
City Me New
Hire
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I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
Jeff Foxworthy / Comedian
Comedy
Heard
People
Southern
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Accent
Iq
Points
Whenever
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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.
Jason Isbell / Singer-Songwriter
Southern
Southern Accent
Accent
Me People Country
Category
Me Country People
Leads
Rural
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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.
Cate Blanchett / Actress
Southern Accent
Accent
Assume
Great Thing
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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.
Cleo Moore / Film Actress
Baseball
Fighting
Shouting
Southern
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Thinking
Accent
Fights
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You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.
Dj Qualls / Actor
Southern
Southern Accent
Stupid
Stupid Me People
Opposite
Accent
Complete
Complete Opposite
Effect
Me Bad People
People Say
So Many People
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The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
Carmen Cusack /
Southern Accent
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Gospel
Ear
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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
Jake Peavy /
Dumb
Dumb People
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Perceived
Slow
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I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.
Johnnie Cochran / Lawyer
Southern
Southern Accent
Talking
White
Accent
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
Watkin Tudor Jones / Rapper
New York
America
Film
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Accent
Music New Know
Coming
Sounds
Super
York
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I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
Jaime King / Actress
Learning
Different
Different Things
Southern
Southern Accent
Thinking
Tibetan
Accent
Actress
So Many Different Things
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Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.
Rod Lurie / Director
Brits
Freak
Nervous
Okay
Peers
Sound
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Accent
Way Find Know
Way Find Trying
Genuinely
Easiest
Easiest Way
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I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.
Taylor Spreitler /
Obstacles
Pushing
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Love Parents Your
Rewarding
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When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.
Angie Thomas /
Southern Accent
Always People Black
Accent
Associate
Black People White
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I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.
Kim Dickens / Film Actress
Dialect
Los Angeles
Southern Accent
Accent
Naturally
Angeles
Counter
Los
Out Here
Stayed
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I've just been so blessed in my journey. Fat kid from Oklahoma, buddy - Southern accent and Bell's palsy, becoming a broadcaster and hanging around a fickle business for 40 years. You wonder how in the hell that happened. It was somebody's plan.
Jim Ross / Professional Wrestling Referee
Journey
Business
Becoming
Blessed
Buddy
Fickle
My Journey
Oklahoma
Southern
Southern Accent
Wonder
Years
Accent
Fat
Bell
Broadcaster
Plan
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I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.
Nikki Deloach / Actress
New York
Broadway
Modeling
Mother
Southern
Southern Accent
Summer
Taught
Mother Me Doing
Accent
Auditioning
Commercials
Me New Doing
Drop
Me Living New
Rid
York
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I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
Molly Shannon / Comic
Campus
Last Year
Monologues
Nyu
Southern Accent
Accent
Big Hit
Drama School
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I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.
Johnny Depp / Actor
New York
Florida
Fury
Hung
Jersey
Melting
Melting Pot
Moved
Pot
Sicilian
Southern
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Accent
Grade
York
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In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.
Stuart Scott / Sportscaster
Plus
Southern
Southern Accent
Talking
Accent
Fairly
Time Black White
Cause
Experienced
Gave
Hard Time
Proper
Talked
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
Larry The Cable Guy / Comedian
Georgia
Southern Accent
Accent
Funny Time Fun
All My Friends
Buddies
Developed
Picked
Talked
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