#accent

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#autocratic #canadian #i #leaders #lot

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!' ↗

— Rachael Ray

#enough #exclamation #good #i #just

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#great #movie #out #pulls #right

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#amazing #audiences #been #bravado #christopher

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#acting #became #businessman #came #dreams

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#agent #america #english #i #lose

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#anything #good #i #i think #sounds

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#allowed #american #american films #bad #bad guys

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