Tom Ellis Quotes

No one can understand my accent!

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

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

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

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.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I have a funny accent in every language.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.