James Adomian Quotes

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

Most little boys like to dress like their daddies.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

I think children learn through their parents.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

I love doing impersonations of people.

I am completely turning into my mom. Me, trying to be stern, is her. Or when I make silly voices. My mom always uses weird voices if she's talking to a kid or a dog. I'm the same person - completely my mother.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

I love doing impressions.

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.