I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Christopher Eccleston
Related I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... PETER ACKROYD I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an A... JONATHAN LAPAGLIA It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in any... MALLORY JANSEN I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. ... JOHN OLIVER I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent;... ADRIAN MCKINTY I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours. REBEL WILSON My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be Engl... SAM HEUGHAN I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought... KIRBY HEYBORNE I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out... CALLUM KEITH RENNIE I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm the only one in my family with an American accent. LOLA KIRKE When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my o... ELLIE GOULDING Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditionin... JONATHAN LAPAGLIA What saved me was my accent, I think I was a bit of a novelty. Otherwise, I certainly didn't have th... FRANK MCCOURT Gone in 60 seconds? That was me. I used my skills in a negative way to make money for crack. CURTIS JENKINS I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who ... PERSIS KHAMBATTA My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the fin... JENNIFER EHLE I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R'... BARBARA WALTERS I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R'... BRENDAN FRANCIS I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interv... KATE O'MARA I still keep my accent. SAMANTHA FOX I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with. DIANE KRUGER I sat in the stands all week and perfected my Canadian accent, KLETE KELLER I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent. LESLIE NIELSEN It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. REBECCA HALL My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the... ASHLEY JENSEN If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the pr... BELA LUGOSI A Southern accent is not a club in my bag. JOHN OLIVER I personally am not conscious of my accent. JARED DIAMOND Gone In 60 Seconds. ERIC LINDROS I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was ... RITA MORENO I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked reall... GRACE JONES I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was al... EMILY MORTIMER My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... EMMA WATSON I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't. MAIA MITCHELL I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce m... BARBARA WALTERS I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Lo... IOAN GRUFFUDD Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ... DICK VAN DYKE Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would... BRANDON ROUTH My accent depends on whom I'm around. CLAIRE FORLANI I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best ... EVA MENDES Anyone who celebrates a regional accent as anything other than quaint fails to see that anywhere in ... LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivi... CHARLOTTE CHURCH I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be v... EIZA GONZALEZ I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. BILLY IDOL If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has ... MICHAEL CAINE The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche v... CHRISTOPH WALTZ They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent. CLEO MOORE Now how would an officer come to such a presumption: would it be because the person 'did not look Am... TRACI HONG It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him. I love Étienne. STEPHANIE PERKINS I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. JANET MCTEER I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't ha... SALMA HAYEK When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I j... MARGOT ROBBIE I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. JAMES CARR I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British ... CONSTANCE WU What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that'... ADHIR KALYAN who happen to speak with an accent, a southern accent. JEFF SESSIONS I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange. ED WEEKS Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this ... ADHIR KALYAN Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personalit... SOFIA VERGARA My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It w... ASHLEY BELL I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend ... POPPY MONTGOMERY I will try to expand it so I take up the whole 60 seconds. I may be selective in my history of human... ALAN CHARLES KORS America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ... AHMET ERTEGUN Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny. ZEDD I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn... SAUL RUBINEK I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an ac... D. B. SWEENEY Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. DJIMON HOUNSOU Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. DESI ARNAZ For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... CHRIS HEMSWORTH Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' ... MERYL STREEP Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was... GUY PEARCE Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an A... TANIT PHOENIX If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that ve... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New Yor... NIKKI DELOACH I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w... CALLAN MCAULIFFE People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' a... STEWART COPELAND My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did... LAWRENCE WELK I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets. XAVIER SAMUEL When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the worl... JAMES ELLROY It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish. AMIT KALANTRI I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... EVA GREEN I have a funny accent in every language. CARMEN BUSQUETS I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just tryin... JOHN OLIVER By the time that I grabbed my little boy and my dog and got down the stairs you could see the blinds... MANDIE SARGENT Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But t... TATIANA MASLANY I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told ... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY Professor Stokes has a more cultured accent, and in many ways, he is the hardest one to do, because ... THAYER DAVID Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a ... ZACH JOHNSON This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to ... HOLLY HUNTER With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of car... BOBBIE ANN MASON Charlene's thoughts: I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers'... DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I h... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am. RICKY WHITTLE The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's gir... RICHELLE MEAD In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up b... ANDIE MACDOWELL I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. BRION JAMES
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much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it. CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it's very... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, mos... CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think His critical judgement is so exquisite It leaves us nothing to admire except... CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us... CHRISTOPHER LASCH