It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine. " They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.
Can I press one for English?
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.
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.
If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
My agent called me and said, "You have an audition for James Bond. They're looking for the girl. " And I told him, "Listen, it's all in English. I'm not an actress. I'm not going to go. " He thought I was kidding with him.
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength. . . all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!
