Accents Quotes - Page 25

• I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

  Michael Caine

  Doing Nothing, Actors, Want

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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

  Henry Wotton

  Voice, Praise, Raises

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• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Military, Book

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

  Jay Leno

  Talking, Care, Cleveland

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• So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
  To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Care, Afar

  William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

  Sharlto Copley

  Able, Whole Life, I Can Do It

  "District 9 star Sharlto Copley". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 13, 2009.

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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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• 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'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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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• I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

  Rachel Bilson

  Gps, Way, Annoying

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• 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.

  Sharlto Copley

  Kids, Years, Voice

  "Sharlto Copley Exclusive Interview for THE A-TEAM Blu-ray; Plus Updates on MEN IN BLACK 3 and ELYSIUM". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

  David Arquette

  Thinking, Mexican, Causes

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

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• I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.

  Henry Cavill

  Talking, Long, Effort

  "Henry Cavill Talks Comics Influences, Filming the Action Scenes, Physical Training, and More on the Set of MAN OF STEEL". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Wife

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