Patrick Ness Quotes

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

I never really had a strong 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 grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

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

I have a funny accent in every language.

Language is a social art.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

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

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

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.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

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.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is also a place of struggle.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.