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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. -- James Franco
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. -- Thomas Hardy
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. -- John Crowe Ransom
Accents are very easy for me. -- Toks Olagundoye
Accent your positive and delete your negative. -- Donna Karan
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. -- Vivien Leigh
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. -- Pierre Bonnard
Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. -- Theodore Bikel
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. -- Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. -- Salma Hayek
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. -- Joe Biden
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. -- Gloria Swanson
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. -- Desi Arnaz
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. -- Gilles Marini
Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more?how do you say??pop-oo-laaarrrity. -- Sofia Vergara
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. -- Nick Park
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job. -- Brion James
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie. -- Jeremy Renner
Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels. -- Toks Olagundoye
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. -- Nick Lowe
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents. -- John Singer Sargent
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. -- Eileen Atkins
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. -- Lee Strasberg
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 remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent. -- Marc Jacobs
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
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! -- Emily Mortimer
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
I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like. -- Ruth Buzzi
I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them. -- Hector Elizondo
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
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. -- George Bernard Shaw
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit. -- Rachel Bilson
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop. -- Eddie Redmayne
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life. -- Maeve Binchy
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
The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks. -- Joel Edgerton
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. -- Gavin DeGraw
I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough. -- Nicki Minaj
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films. -- Kate Winslet
I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?' -- Rebecca Mader
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off. -- Christopher Walken
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it. -- Janeane Garofalo
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. -- John Shelton Reed
I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer. -- Nasim Pedrad
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. -- Mike Myers
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
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 was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy. -- Kate McKinnon
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character. -- Stana Katic
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. -- Callan McAuliffe
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events. -- The Weeknd
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe. -- Joan Collins
I can do accents really well. -- Jordin Sparks
In Australia, kids play in American accents. -- Yael Stone
It can get a bit boring working on accents. -- Kelly Macdonald
Those English and Scottish know how to do accents. -- Joey McIntyre
Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun. -- Carla Gugino
At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents. -- Joan Rivers
By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise? -- Henry Wotton
Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation. -- Chuck Inglish
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. -- James Nesbitt
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people. -- Trevor Noah
I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role. -- Gary Carr
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn. -- Jaime King
The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore. -- Bill Maher
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn -- Jaime King
I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun. -- Albert Finney
Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you. -- Kayla Ewell
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. -- Margaret Mitchell
I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly. -- Ruth Negga
Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs. -- Colum McCann
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments. -- Vera Wang
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents. -- Harvey Dunn
I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen. -- Jamie Bamber
The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand. -- Carter Jenkins
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung. -- William Jones
The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents. -- Chelsea Handler
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor. -- Alessandro Nivola
I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself. -- Chelsea Handler
There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms. -- Erica Schroeder
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! -- William Shakespeare
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. -- Marshall McLuhan
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different. -- Jacki Weaver
When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents. -- Hannah Simone
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. -- Horace
I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents. -- Ray Stevenson
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. -- Wallace Stevens
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! -- Austin Butler
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character. -- Mia Wasikowska
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. -- Diane Ladd
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. -- Jamie Bell
They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me. -- Deanna Raybourn
I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. -- Emily Mortimer
Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents... -- Emmy Rossum
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish. -- Ashley Jensen
All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was. -- Alice McDermott
I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle. -- Margot Robbie
Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
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
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. -- Geri Halliwell
I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice. -- Jessica Chastain
It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger. -- Iwan Rheon
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer. -- Lord Byron
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
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. -- Christiane Amanpour
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures. -- Sharlto Copley
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. -- Martin Henderson
We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge. -- Mia Wasikowska
I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that. -- Adam Croasdell
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. -- Stephen Daldry
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly. -- Stefon Harris
I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character. -- Sundra Oakley
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. -- Christopher Fowler
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble. -- Cyrus Broacha

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