Accents Quotes

• To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

  Sean Connery

  Departure

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• You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

  Joe Biden

  Racism, Racist, Dunkin Donuts

  "Biden explains Indian-American remarks". www.nbcnews.com. July 7, 2006.

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

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Speak English, Traveled

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Sting

  Class, Want, England

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• An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

  Toni Collette

  Character, Way, Entry

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Atmosphere, Skins

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

  Jaime King

  I Can

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

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• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  Claire Forlani

  Depends

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• The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Art, Giving

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• In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Growth, India

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

  Joan Collins

  Drama, Hard Work, School

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• I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

  Salma Hayek

  Latin, Mean, Mexican

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• I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Country, Bullying

  "Nicki Minaj: Agent Provocateur" by James Patrick Herman, www.elle.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

  Robert Carlyle

  Change, Character, Years

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

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

  Jeremy Renner

  Tools, Stories, Ifs

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• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Southern, Sound

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 4, 2005.

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• I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

  Vivien Leigh

  Language, Found, Difficult

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• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

  Ivan Illich

  Art, Learning, People

  Ivan Illich (1974). “Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation”

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• Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

  Mike Myers

  Years, Body, Mets

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Use, Aspect

  The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. October, 1991.

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• I can do accents really well.

  Jordin Sparks

  Wells, Can Do, I Can

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

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Trying, Firsts, Affected

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• Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

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• Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Strength, Whole

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  At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

  Joan Rivers

  Funeral, Comedian, Age

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.44, Penguin

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