Accents Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

  Cate Blanchett

  Jobs, Play, Acting

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• I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

  Sharlto Copley

  Character, Actors, Dialect

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

  Odeya Rush

  Perfect, Parent, Challenges

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

  Odeya Rush

  Challenges

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

  Odeya Rush

  Dialect Coach, Two, Three

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

  Keira Knightley

  Book, Kids, Wizards

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

  David Suchet

  Italian, Would Be, Outsiders

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

  Freddie Highmore

  Character, Guitar, August

  "Freddie Highmore, Kerri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Find Family in August Rush". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 21, 2007.

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• Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

  Freddie Highmore

  Book, Helping, Kind

  "Freddie Highmore, Kerri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Find Family in August Rush". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 21, 2007.

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• If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Talking, Class, Ideas

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• For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

  Michael Caine

  House, Cider, England

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• My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

  Michael Caine

  Texas, Next, Clue

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• Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Eccentricity

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Dublin, Lasts

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• My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is my daughter can do an English accent. I don't know how she learned this.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Daughter, Wife, House

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• When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Pockets, Zips, Knows

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Southern, Comedian

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• I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jokes, Knows, I Can

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

  Chelsea Handler

  Kids, Thinking, Would Be

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• It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings would be or something like that, but there is a very sophisticated air about the Asgardians[?], you know, in their dialogue, and - hold on. Okay. Um, and I'm doing an English accent in the movie.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Thinking, Air, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.

  Anna Torv

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  Kate McKinnon

  Real, Talking, Voice

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

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• I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

  Henry Cho

  People, Southern, Asian

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