#accent

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job. ↗

— Brion James

#deal #dialects #done #fool #gotta

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#always #being #car #fact #foreigner

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent? ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #humor

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#american #because #certainly #cnn #crazy

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#any #career #doing #everyone #except

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#actor #american #american accent #british #crack

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

My accent's become a weird hybrid. ↗

— Anthony LaPaglia

#become #hybrid #weird

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. ↗

— Michael Caine

#doing #i #notice #right #while