Accents Quotes

• 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.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• My accent depends on whom I'm around.

  Claire Forlani

  Depends

  3 Copy quote

• 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.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Accent your positive and delete your negative.

  Donna Karan

  Negative

  6 Copy quote

• I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

  Erma Bombeck

  Europe, Literature, Cosmetics

  22 Copy quote

• When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

  Gavin DeGraw

  War, Hero, Hands

  12 Copy quote

• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wind, Soothing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

  Albert Finney

  Fun

  3 Copy quote

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

  Pierre Bonnard

  Strength, Whole

  3 Copy quote

• But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

  Hugh Grant

  Wise, Way, Genius

  3 Copy quote

• I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

  James Franco

  Italian, Mcdonalds, Different

  5 Copy quote

• I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

  Brion James

  Parrots, Picks, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Toni Collette

  Character, Way, Entry

  3 Copy quote

• When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Ifs

  5 Copy quote

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

  Sean Connery

  Departure

  3 Copy quote

• I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Acting, Elocution, Lessons

  83 Copy quote

• Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking

  3 Copy quote

• The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

  Joel Edgerton

  Enough, Know Yourself, Tricky

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  Nasim Pedrad

  School, Names, Parent

  3 Copy quote

• Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
  Another year has burst upon the shore
  Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
  Wandering in broken accents in the air,
  Are dying to an echo.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Echoes, Air

  3 Copy quote

• 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.

  Geri Halliwell

  Complaining, Sometimes, Reservations

  "This much I know". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

  James Gibbons

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

  3 Copy quote