#accent

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

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

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

— Adrian Smith

#anyone #australian #cool #me #racket

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. ↗

— Colum McCann

#music

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

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

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#atlantic #crossing #either #even #experience

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. ↗

— John Mahoney

#america #anymore #because #british #did

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. ↗

— Rita Moreno

#accent #because #i #lot #made

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