Eve Hewson Quotes

It's easier to act in your own accent.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

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

I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing.

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.

All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem Irish. None of the kids in my family, my siblings, speak with an Irish accent... we've never lived there full-time; we weren't born there. We just go there once or twice a year. It's weird. Our parents sound Irish, but we don't.

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence of who I am.

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.