#accent

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

#actor #because #delivered #does #essence

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#aware #down #find #get #go

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#adopt #american #american accent #british #certainly

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#added #areas #arts #considered #country

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#whole #will #work

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#because #character #different #film #i

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. ↗

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#acting #get #i #lessons #rid

I love accents. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#i #i love #love

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. ↗

— James Franco

#different #i #irish #italian #mcdonald

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide. ↗

— Monique Lhuillier

#always #designing #feel #hide #i