Robert Snodgrass Quotes

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

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 would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

I have a funny accent in every language.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

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

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.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.

I discovered that it's not really about the language. It's about how the words are pronounced and the delivery. We have plenty of good English-speaking comedians. It's O.K. if I have my accent, my gestures, my way of speaking.

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

No one can understand my accent!

When I am out in Liverpool, the fans come up and talk to me. But I cannot take in everything they say because I don't understand all of it.

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

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.

Every time I get in an Uber in L.A., they're like, 'Oh, great accent. Are you from Australia?' I constantly have to repeat myself when I'm in North America because no one understands a word I'm saying.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

When I first went to Japan, I was wrestling under my real name. The Japanese people have a great amount of difficulty with the letters f, r and l. So three out of the six letters in my first name they couldn't say. It was a bit of a mouthful for those guys.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.