I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here. " I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U. S. It took three years to get the accent right.
I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.