Accents Quotes - Page 26

• They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Baseball, Strong

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!

  Nicole Beharie

  Mom, Boots, Georgia

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• My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

  Naveen Andrews

  Decision, Language, Conscious

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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• I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

  Max Greenfield

  Confused, Reality, Giving

  "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.

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• 'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

  John Green

  Stars, Wine, Monk

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• Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

  Norman Doidge

  Eight, Years, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

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

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• Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Life, Men, Years

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• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

  Christoph Waltz

  Smart, Mean, Interesting

  "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Powerful, Tears

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• I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man husband? The lack of a powerful father or spouse who could jump-start her 'feminist' career with money, contacts, and influence? That Idaho BA? The wink? The charisma and, indeed, sensuality so lacking in her angry critics?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Powerful, Husband, Father

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• On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Nuts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

  Penelope Keith

  Husband, Scotland, Yesterday

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• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Struggle, Thinking, Gist

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Home, Blood, Names

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• A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Home, Men

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.

  Bill Whittle

  Stars, War, Simple

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• All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, America, Actors

  "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

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• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  Zedd

  People

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• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

  Bill Roorbach

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Twilight, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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• Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

  Edwin Newman

  Television Commercials, Sound, Feels

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from.

  James Marsters

  Real, Nice, Years

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