#accents

I’m nobody’s sidekick,” Annabeth growled. “And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he sounds like his mother. We killed her in New Jersey.” Percy frowned. “I’m pretty sure that accent isn’t New Jersey. Who’s his—? Oh.” It all fell into place. Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium—the lair of Medusa. She’d talked with that same accent, at least until Percy had cut off her head. “Medusa is your mom?” he asked. “Dude, that sucks for you. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#annabeth-chase #family #humor #medusa #new-jersey

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV. ↗

— Peter Hitchens

#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#after #difficult #found #i #languages

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

#character #doing #few #getting #i

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

#great #movie #out #pulls #right

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

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

#deal #dialects #done #fool #gotta

It can get a bit boring working on accents. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#bit #boring #get #working

Fo' shiz. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#british #french