Neville Marriner Quotes

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

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

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 can do accents really well.

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

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.

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

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

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.

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

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

I definitely have a Fisher voice.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

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.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.

I never really had a strong accent.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.