Accents Quotes - Page 14

• After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

  John Lennon

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  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Thinking, People, Bigs

  "‘Jersey Shore’ Star Vinny Guadagnino’s Shakespearean Secret" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

  Carole Nelson Douglas

  Fascination, Advantage, Splendid

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• I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.

  India de Beaufort

  Kids, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

  India de Beaufort

  Land, People, Roles

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• There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

  Molly Harper

  Running, Bystanders, Hills

  Molly Harper (2011). “How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

  Alan Cooper

  Simple, Color, Simplicity

  Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.308, John Wiley & Sons

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• But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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• I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Character, Men, People

  "Dan Whitney, a.k.a. Larry The Cable Guy". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Real, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

  Charlize Theron

  Culture, Lost

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• I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dialect Coach, Voice, Mysterious

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

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• Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

  Rachael Ray

  Enough, Exclamation, Ifs

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• I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  Joey Santiago

  Australian, I Can

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• I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

  Jamie Bell

  Kind, Pretending, Remove

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedian, Actors, Proud

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Drama, School, College

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• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Los Angeles, Whole, Rehearsing

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• I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Years, Sound, Lasts

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

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

  Abigail Breslin

  New York, Want, Way

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• I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

  Alice Englert

  Forget, I Can

  "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  Idris Elba

  America, Long, People

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• It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, America, People

  "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

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• Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

  Annalena McAfee

  School, Glasgow

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