James Purefoy Quotes

My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

I never really had a strong accent.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

The voice is a second face.

Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

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.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I can do accents really well.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.