Rachel Hurd-Wood Quotes

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

I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

It's good to see some Kiwi accents up on the big screen.

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

I never really had a strong 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.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.