#accent

I never really had a strong accent. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#had #i #never #really #strong

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

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. ↗

— James Ellroy

#accent #been #eisenhower #everything #father

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

#actor #because #delivered #does #essence

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#aware #down #find #get #go

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

— Judy Holliday

#actress #been #garbo #her #must

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#adopt #american #american accent #british #certainly

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#any #conscious #conscious decision #decision #i

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#actually #before #bit #cockney #drama

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#i #i do #latin #mean #mexican