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Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous. -- John Updike
Accent your positive and delete your negative. -- Donna Karan
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. -- Joe Biden
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. -- Jane Haddam
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one youâ??ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar. -- Deb Caletti
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. -- Brion James
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. -- Colum McCann
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. -- Billy Idol
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper. -- Nicki Minaj
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. -- Peter Ackroyd
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
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. -- Stephen Fry
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent. -- Maz Jobrani
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking. -- Joe Biden
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. -- Christopher Eccleston
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. -- Shakira
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact. -- Rachel Johnson
I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character. -- Larry the Cable Guy
The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect. -- Elaine Stritch
I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing! -- Roselyn Sanchez
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. -- Laura Wade
I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before. -- Robert Pattinson
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them. -- Russell Peters
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.' -- Jeff Foxworthy
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. -- Viola Davis
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
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. -- Rob Sheffield
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche 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
I love the Midwest accent. -- Lucy Punch
Laughter has no foreign accent. -- Paul B. Lowney
My accent's become a weird hybrid. -- Anthony LaPaglia
My accent depends on whom I'm around. -- Claire Forlani
I don't have a good British accent. -- Serena Williams
I never really had a strong accent. -- Daniel Craig
I can hardly understand the Australian accent. -- Joey Santiago
I havent lost my culture, just my accent. -- Charlize Theron
I've always had facility with the German accent. -- Mercedes Ruehl
French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused. -- An Na
I personally am not conscious of my accent. -- Jared Diamond
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another -- John Ashbery
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent. -- Odeya Rush
You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. -- Katy Mixon
I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent. -- Jessica Simpson
Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent. -- Andie MacDowell
I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent. -- Lynn Samuels
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent. -- Cleo Moore
I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy. -- Rita Ora
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. -- Pierre Bonnard
A Southern accent is not a club in my bag. -- John Oliver
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British. -- Natalie Massenet
You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing. -- Diane Kruger
It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent. -- Heath Ledger
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. -- Heinrich Heine
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. -- Oliver Sacks
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent. -- Alan Rickman
That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim? -- Jim Norton
It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors. -- Ryan Cartwright
Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. -- Annalena McAfee
For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent. -- Michael Caine
I'm the only one in my family with an American accent. -- Lola Kirke
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent. -- Michael W. Smith
People think that I live in England and have a British accent. -- Rich Fulcher
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character. -- Toni Collette
I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent. -- James Hunter
I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind. -- Janeane Garofalo
I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent. -- Jeremy Irvine
I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent. -- Quindon Tarver
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard. -- Josh Lucas
Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb. -- Wilmer Valderrama
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. -- Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately. -- Cillian Murphy
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. -- Christina Stead
I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me. -- Michelle Ryan
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. -- Stephanie Perkins
I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. -- Charlotte Bronte
Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman. -- Steve Fowler
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent. -- Radha Mitchell
When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously. -- Lake Bell
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. -- Amy Chua
My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why. -- Niall Horan
I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller. -- Goran Visnjic
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent. -- John Lennon
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. -- Orson Scott Card
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are. -- Sean Connery
I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent. -- Leslie Nielsen
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents. -- Earl Wilson
It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines. -- Michelle Dockery
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do. -- Luke Evans
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. -- Sofia Vergara
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. -- Joseph Conrad
I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. -- Janet McTeer
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. -- Salma Hayek
The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character. -- Sharlto Copley
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent. -- Hector Hugh Munro
My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories. -- Lily James
I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am. -- Ricky Whittle
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. -- Erma Bombeck
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth -- Rudyard Kipling
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent. -- Dorothy Malone
When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you -- Fernando Lamas
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now. -- Robert Benchley
In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there -- Stephen Fry
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent. -- Elvis Costello
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. -- Mia Wasikowska
In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent. -- Paris Hilton
When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny. -- Zedd
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. -- Joss Whedon
Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'. -- Jennifer Ellison
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. -- Elmer Eric Schattschneider
I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent. -- Cheech Marin
I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny. -- Henry Cho

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