#accent

Fo' shiz. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#british #french

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV. ↗

— Peter Hitchens

#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk. ↗

— David Carradine

#act #anybody #body needs #chinese #convince

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people. ↗

— Viola Davis

#accents #accessible #adjust #african #african americans

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#adopting #died #grandfather #great #hands

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#doing #every #instant #part #playing

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent. ↗

— Martin Yan

#accent #age #america #anyone #come

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#anymore #brando #canadian #decided #guys

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#actress #been #garbo #her #must

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#buffalo #day #deliver #even #i