Top 99 Accents Quotes

Accents aren’t accents, they’re language It’s almost like a code. Because that’s the key to who you are: it’s how you express who you are. And how you express who you are is how you speak.

I know there are some actors who won’t switch their accents off when they’re on set and like to be called by their character’s names. That works for them, and that’s great.

I didn’t bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

I didn’t really like my Sydney accent – nobody likes the sound of their own voice – and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I’ve only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven’t been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I’ve ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

I don’t think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I’ve always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we’d never experienced.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I’m a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

In the U.K., we’re surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and all these other shows here, so it’s not something that’s really alien to us.

I’ve always been very in tune to my voice and to other people’s voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects – I collected them like stamps.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I’ve always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I’ve inherited – that I can listen to things and pick them up.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad’s from Glasgow, and my mum’s from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in Ireland, too, so I was always somebody who absorbed accents. I would come back from visits, very much to the annoyance of friends and family, with an accent based on where I’d been.

I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

The thing that attracted me the most was comedy acting and people like Catherine Tate and Olivia Colman; people doing funny voices and accents.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

If I’m doing different accents, I feel like I’m acting. If I’m doing my own accent, I feel like I’m saying someone else’s dialogue as myself.

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you’re not throwing an audience off with it, then that’s all it should be.

I’m great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I’m obsessed with accents.

I’m good with accents and stuff; it’s mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

I’m obsessed with how people talk! Accents, dialects… So whenever I go someplace where an accent is extremely distinct – Minneapolis, New Orleans, Jamaica, Vancouver – I always find myself trying to pick up the subtleties of their patterns.

I can’t say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I’ve encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on ‘The Sopranos.’

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I’ll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

I’ve done a few American accents. I’ve maybe passed a test. But I don’t know if it makes things easier or not.

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don’t know that.

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story – but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn’t mean they’re less intelligent or what-have-you.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

I love period pieces. It’s where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That’s what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it’s still completely separate from being an actor.

Maybe we’ve been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It’s something that’s open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

It’s good to see some Kiwi accents up on the big screen.

I love boys with English accents.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we’re really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

I’m a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

It’s actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don’t think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak with an accent. Accents in a vacuum aren’t a problem; it’s how you portray those characters and how well they’re served in a script.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it’s a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I’m doing!

People shouldn’t have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

I love dialects and accents; they’re something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It’s something I noticed with my manager, because he’s from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

England is strictly class-based. What’s surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, ‘So you want to be a jester?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.’

My dad and mom took us to Canada. I loved it – the cool clean air, the green mountains and the Canadian accents. That trip is one of my favorite childhood memories as a family.

In America, they don’t need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don’t need to look elsewhere for rappers with weird accents that they have to get accustomed to, which is like homework to them.