An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys
After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent. ' No, he's great. He's a good guy.
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.
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.
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back. And in greater numbers. " I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief. The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.
You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
Laughter has no foreign accent.
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don’t understand her accent – I will go hungry for the entire flight.
Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.