Annalena McAfee Quotes

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

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

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

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

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

I still keep my 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.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

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.

Despite his South Indian connection, my husband Rohit doesn't have an accent at all.

I love boys with English accents.

Today, actors aren't forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example's Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien - and fantastic. It's sad that when the likes of him go, there won't be those sorts of accents any more.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

I have a funny accent in every language.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

I love the Midwest accent.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.