Chelsea Handler Quotes

I have a funny accent in every language.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

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

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

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'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

I love boys with English accents.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

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

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

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

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

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.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'

I still keep my accent.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.