I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had to do for a film, that was a legit like 7 months of diet and working out. And then I was able to do like an accent, I was able to change myself physically, I was able to do a lot of the things that I'd always looked at actors and admired when they did that. So I was excited to do that.
I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
I've always had facility with the German accent.
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.
My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.
The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile. . . and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
I personally am not conscious of my accent.
I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.