Sarah Lancashire Quotes

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

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

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

I have a funny accent in every language.

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

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

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.