Accents Quotes - Page 20

• By weaker accents, what's your praise
  When Philomel her voice doth raise?

  Henry Wotton

  Voice, Praise, Raises

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• Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

  Dean Rusk

  Rights, Citizens, Georgia

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• Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Volleyball, Children, School

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• My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame.

  King Louie

  Mind, Hints, Littles

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• All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Deep Thought, Rosary, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

  Luc Sante

  Children, Struggle, Culture

  "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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• My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.

  Rebel Wilson

  Character, America, Different

  "Rebel Wilson and Conan O'Brien Talks SUPER FUN NIGHT, Inspiration from Real Life, and Changing from Multi-Camera to Single-Camera Filming". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2013.

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• I love comedy. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices. Probably about 3/4 of those were comedic, in some way, and the other 1/4 was more serious stuff or more action or more dramatic little pieces that I would make. But, I tend to lean towards comedy.

  Sharlto Copley

  Kids, First Love, Voice

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Play, Actors

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• I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.

  Anthony Hopkins

  War, Kids, America

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• A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Teeth, Needs

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

  David Tennant

  Jobs, Thinking, Challenges

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

  David Tennant

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  "David Tennant Talks GRACEPOINT, Working on His American Accent, Possibility of Future Seasons, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2014.

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• I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Middle Of Nowhere, Grew Up, Middle

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Character, Important

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• I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Pigs, Blue, Nebraska

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

  Charles M. Blow

  Mistake, College, Anchors

  "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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• Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  People, Southern, Flavor

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• Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Stupid, Mean, People

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Sound

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• That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Interesting

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• I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Names

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• You ever mix two different groups of friends? That can be stressful. You always feel like you have to prep 'em. You're like, "These people over here, uh, they don't think I drink. And don't be thrown by my British accent."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Thinking, Two

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• As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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