#accent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #accent




You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.


Diane Kruger


#any #fascinating #learn #thing #want

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.


Brandon Routh


#amazing #audiences #been #bravado #christopher

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.


Jane Seymour


#agent #america #english #i #lose

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.


Sting


#back #change #class #did #england

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?


Julian Fellowes


#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

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


#becomes #behind #do you know #enough #find

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.


Jeff Foxworthy


#always #deduct #heard #i #iq

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


#art #called #claim #director #discover

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.


Deborah Kerr


#blonde #changed #could #english #get

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.


John Mahoney


#america #anymore #because #british #did