Accent Quotes
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FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America`s most precious discoveries and possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
Erma Bombeck
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[On preparing for her role as Queen Amidala] "George worked with me a lot, on changing my voice and my movement and the way I carried myself. We worked on this accent that ... kinda goes to old, older generations of actresses who used kind of an unidentif...
Natalie Portman
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[on learning Spanish] I have a great accent because I grew up hearing it in the neighborhood. But I have no idea what I`m saying.
Jessica Alba
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If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don`t think it`s easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself. [About turning down a part in The Horse Whisperer (1998) because he was required to change his accent]
Lucas Black
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It wasn`t exactly a mistake, but if there`s anything I regret, it`s probably having disguised my own native accent. Actors of my generation all tended to speak RP [received pronunciation]. Of course, it`s all different now and drama students are encourage...
Ian McKellen
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(When asked what makes Caleb unique and threatening): His accent. Never trust a southerner. No, I`m kidding. They`re wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he`s an evil kind of crazy man who`s righteous. Fear the righteous.
Nathan Fillion
Keywords: accent :: an :: and :: asked :: believe :: but :: caleb :: charm :: crazy :: evil :: fear :: he :: his :: in :: kidding :: kind :: makes :: man :: never :: niceness :: no :: of :: re :: righteous :: southerner :: the :: they :: threatening :: to :: trust :: unique :: want :: what :: when :: who :: wonderful :: youSource: imdb.com
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If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn`t have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.
Antonio Banderas
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I`ve always had this fascination with the movie business. It`s always been a passion for me. I decided that I wanted to come here because this is where most movies are made. This is the town for it..to play Americans. I feel like my accent is good enough.
Oliver James
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[on making "Rose Red" (2002) (mini)] I wasn`t allowed to do anything quirky, or to have an interesting accent. So the challenge lay in making her as interesting as I could without making her unusual. And that was hard!
Melanie Lynskey
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It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
Kate Beckinsale
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I really didn`t have to work, shall we say, with "Star Trek." It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there was Scotty. It`s like I tell people what you see in Scotty is 99% James Doohan and 1% accent.
James Doohan
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[on doing the Texan accent for Secondhand Lions (2003)] I had a great dialect coach and he told me there`s always one moment when you get something. He said, "Do your Texan accent for me," when I had learned it from a tape. He said, "It`s too English!". I...
Michael Caine
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[on doing the Texan accent for Secondhand Lions (2003)] I had a great dialect coach and he told me there`s always one moment when you get something. He said, "Do your Texan accent for me," when I had learned it from a tape. He said, "It`s too English!". I...
Michael Caine
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Wherever I go the real hard-core drug dealers come up to me and confide in me. I almost feel guilty turning around and saying: `Ello, mate. My name`s Idris and I`m from London.` I don`t want to break the illusion. - On why he uses his American accent when...
Idris Elba
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[on daughter Apple`s accent] She says "Mummy" instead of "Mommy", I don`t mind that. I will if she starts saying "basil" and "pasta" the English way, as that really drives me nuts.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I`m working with a dialect coach, but it`s not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like `peritoneal lavage`, you know, these medical expressions... I don`t want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.
Goran Visnjic
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The director (Gore Verbinski) asked me to do Dutch, and I don`t do Dutch. So I decided on Scottish. - on his Scottish accent for Davy Jones in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man`s Chest"
Bill Nighy
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It`s part of my job. You can`t play Veronica Guerin [puts on heavy Strine] sounding like this. It just wouldn`t wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it`s a farce - is that it`s not slapped on. [on doing many accents]
Cate Blanchett
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I sometimes wonder if you Americans aren`t often fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn`t pronounce my R`s. I wasn`t a beauty.
Barbara Walters
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When I`m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don`t, they`re lying. Everybody does, yeah. Y...
Rachel Weisz
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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don`t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I ...
Robert Pattinson
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[talking about Robin Williams` visiting him in the hospital shortly after the accident] There was this guy wearing a blue scrub hat and a yellow gown and with a Russian accent, being some insane Russian doctor . . . I laughed for the first time, and I kne...
Christopher Reeve
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I listened to a lot of records. I smoked quite a few cigarettes and that - the smoking - stayed with me unfortunately! And I copied his voice in much the same way as I would learn an accent. With a lot of work, I got it. I found Jim`s voice. Whenever peop...
Val Kilmer
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[on Charlie Sheen`s reaction to her New Zealand accent] He turned around and said, "What`s this, uh, voice? What are you doing?" I said, "I`m just talking." Then he said, "Hmmm. Is that some kind of actor-y thing?"
Melanie Lynskey
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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it`s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
Roman Polanski
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I`d rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don`t know what`s coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I`m working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don`t want to be like `Okay, I`...
Eva Green
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[when asked what "It" was, replying in her perfect Brooklyn accent] I ain`t real sure.
Clara Bow
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(On his role in The Last King of Scotland (2006)) "I did a massive amount to prepare for this. First of all I started learning Swahili, learning the accent, then I had to do study all the recording as well as all the books, tapes, documentaries. When I we...
Forest Whitaker
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