Leah Remini Quotes

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

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

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'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I still have perfect diction!

You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.

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.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

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

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

I definitely have a Fisher voice.

I can do accents really well.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

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