Accents Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

  William Jones

  Simple, Ease, Pearls

  Sir William Jones (1783). “A Grammar of the Persian Language ... The third edition, with an index”, p.134

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• I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Australia, Challenges, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Father, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• [Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

  Lauren Bacall

  Stronger, Attractive, Opinionated

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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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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

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• When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mom, Growing Up, Mexican

  "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

  Lake Bell

  Drama, School, Years

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

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• I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.

  Lake Bell

  Drama, School, Years

  "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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• 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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• I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

  Lynn Samuels

  Terrible

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

  Stephen Daldry

  Running, Silly, Garden

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  Joey Santiago

  Australian, I Can

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