I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn
I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.
An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.
I havent lost my culture, just my accent.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
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.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.
I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.
I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.
I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.
My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.