Words matter. These are the best Southern Accent Quotes from famous people such as Jason Isbell, Josh Lucas, Jaime King, Carmen Cusack, Jessica Simpson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
I think that’s what’s great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
The first music that came to my ear was gospel… I used to sing ‘Amazing Grace’ with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
The great thing about not being American is that you don’t assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
It’s super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it – from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
If you talk with a Southern accent, it’s perceived as though you are slow. That’s not the case. I’ve met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
I’m from the South, where if you walk down the street and there’s somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can’t tell whether it’s a black or a white person.
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
Now, I don’t know about my peers, but I get nervous – okay, I genuinely freak out – when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That’s for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.
I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
