#accent

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened. ↗

— Joss Stone

#around #been #bit #deliberate #formative

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#beautiful #common #gifted #had #lots

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#big #boring #cliche #dumb #enough

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#deafness #developed #did #exactly #fact

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character. ↗

— Viola Davis

#anything #been #character #constant #criticism

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#always #deduct #heard #i #iq

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#german #germans #just #speak

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#anyone #australian #cool #me #racket

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life. ↗