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• Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Home, Texas

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• The main thing is always try to find different voices for yourself. If you're in your car just driving somewhere you can try to start thinking about a voice you might want to do, like try a British accent.

  Ashly Burch

  Thinking, Voice, Car

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• That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

  Cyrus Broacha

  India, Comedy, Problem

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• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  Yael Stone

  Kids, Play, Australia

  "Meet the Australian Actress Who Does the Most Amazing Accent on Television". Interview with Laura Bennett, newrepublic.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

  Grace Jones

  Song, Strong, Men

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• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Memories, Thinking, Skills

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.

  Demian Bichir

  School, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: collider.com

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• I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

  Gemma Arterton

  Drama, School, Cockneys

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• I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

  Robert Pattinson

  Jobs, Real, Done

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• I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

  Lake Bell

  Morning, Use, Paper

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

  Lake Bell

  Voice, Dialect, Mouths

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.

  Vera Farmiga

  Long, Littles, Might

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

  Tanit Phoenix

  Years, Firsts, Language

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• It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.

  Luke Mitchell

  Coaching, Acting, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  Michel Gondry

  Children, Boston, World

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Laughing, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Slavery, Canada

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

  Christian Bale

  Long, Trying, Months

  "Dark Star". www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2005.

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• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  Salma Hayek

  New York, Believe, Important

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

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• I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

  Salma Hayek

  Latin, People, Mexico

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

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• It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

  Cate Blanchett

  Jobs, Play, Acting

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• I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

  Quindon Tarver

  Laughing, Remember

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Names

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
  function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
  and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
  advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.

  Rinus Michels

  Team, Play, Space

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• French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

  An Na

  Confused, Humorous, School

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