Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Freeman

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

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Cartwright

It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors.

It's probably because of my country accent and because I study quite a bit. My head is always in some textbook.

The nice thing about blazers is that they can accentuate all body types, whether you are a little portly, taller, or even if you are short. But it is really important to get a jacket that fits well.

Emily Mortimer

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

Daniel Boulud

Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

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

Casey Affleck

A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style.

Margot Robbie

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

Herbie Hancock

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make.

Rebecca Jones

A lot of people now are using the island as an accent piece. It's in the same wood species, but with a different color and a different finish.

They have fabulous British accents and they are really fun with their British invasion music.

Holly Hunter

This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to the table.

Edmund White

It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

Thomas Campion

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

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

Jaime King

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

Lake Bell

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

Jordin Sparks

I can do accents really well.

James Nesbitt

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.

Michael Socha

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

Mia Wasikowska

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

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.