Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've never been a post-up player. I think of posting up as something that accents my game. I didn't want to be put there at first. I'm not David Lucas and I'm not Kyle Jeffers. I do a little bit of everything. Basically, it was finding my role on the team because it changed from last year. I'm just trying to adapt to it. I'm not going to play post ever again in my life.

The 'y'all' Southern accent turned things even harder for me. Now I am getting good at it.

Andie MacDowell

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

Martin Freeman

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

Adrian McKinty

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

We choose a canvas based on the specific work. There are split-hair types, but we have a sense of what will accentuate the artist?s vision.

We're very excited about our new tenant opening in Columbia Mall. It fills the need for another entertainment option in Columbia and is a great accent to all the new renovations that have taken place here in the last 14 months.

That's always a starting point of conversation when you find somebody with the same accent as you.

Summer Phoenix

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

I wanted the person with the Southern accent to be the smartest person in the room.

Andie MacDowell

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

By making the tests standardized, regional accents will be removed, pauses between sounds would be constant and overall consistency would vastly improve.

I remember the first time I ever drove through deep, southern West Virginia. I couldn't even understand the accent of the people there, you know. They couldn't understand me. West Virginia, actually, is a state that's made up of some different kinds of communities.

Kevin McKidd

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

I have to be journalistically appropriate and voice my opinion if something happens, but I want to do my best to accentuate the positives of the sport.

I have to identify the negatives and accentuate the positives.

Mark Twain

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

I don't know if it was her accent or if she just didn't have anything to say. But if that's the reason she's playing better, than that's fine with me.

Rex Reed

I had some problems with his accent it was like he was talking with two fingers on his tongue. But he got that thing Truman did with his eye right. He was always rubbing it. So I guess it was pretty close.

Salma Hayek

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

Robert Carlyle

I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary.

Julia Roberts

I'd tell her, 'Cover your tracks. Accentuate the positive. Appreciate things. Just know that every single moment of anything remotely good is a gift.'

If companies work with outsourcers to build a structure that requires accent neutralization, cultural affinity, and a company product background -- if it makes the investment in their people -- then the performance could be good. But if they are merely going to a lowest-cost location, to an area that has already been mined for agents with English proficiency, then their customer service will falter.

Mercedes Ruehl

I've always had facility with the German accent.

Mia Wasikowska

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Theodore Bikel

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

Lake Bell

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

Jaime King

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn

Rod Steiger

For that matter, who knows if Jesus had an accent or not? You know, so... you just play it as you play any character, any other part.

William Shakespeare

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Airto Moreira

The idea is very exciting and I'm really looking forward to playing this music as a trio. It's going to definitely be different ... because of the style that I play which is kind of a Brazilian jazz. Even when I play jazz and live in this country for so long, I didn't lose yet my Brazilian accent when I play and when I talk.

Lynn Samuels

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

Jim Calhoun

All those numbers will tell you that we did not do what we are capable of doing. We have to accentuate what we do well.