Accents Quotes

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

  Sean Connery

  Departure

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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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• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  Claire Forlani

  Depends

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

  Pierre Bonnard

  Strength, Whole

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• Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

  Brandon Routh

  Jobs, Giving, Amazing Job

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• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  Bela Lugosi

  Imagination, Enemy, Betrayed

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• 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.

  Martin Yan

  Past, America, Age

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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

  Baseball, Fighting, Thinking

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• I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

  David Carradine

  Chinese, Needs, Kung Fu

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

  Dorothy Malone

  Texas, Notes, Loses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

  Josh Lucas

  Broken, Southern, Hard

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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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• 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.

  Anish Kapoor

  Reality, Hands, Deeper

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• I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Leader

  "Leslie Nielsen Dead: Comedian Remembered For ‘Airplane’ And ‘Naked Gun’", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2010.

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• Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

  Desi Arnaz

  Careers, Doing Me, Helping

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• I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Character, Voice, Scripts

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• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

  Gloria Swanson

  Beautiful, Tennessee, Common

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• A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

  Lee Strasberg

  Independent, Essence, Feelings

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