#accent

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

#accents #accessible #adjust #african #african americans

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#acting #auditions #because #blonde #blonde hair

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

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

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#actually #before #bit #cockney #drama

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

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#acting #get #i #lessons #rid

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#accepted #everyone #fact #hip #looks

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

#brilliance #detecting #fooled #high #i

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

#america #been #character #cute #eccentric