Rajiv Menon Quotes

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

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

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

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

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

I still keep my accent.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

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.

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

One of the challenges obviously with doing an accent from a time period early in history is that there aren't recordings. You would never really get the opportunity to hear exactly what you were shooting for.

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

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

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 a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.