Naby Keita Quotes

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!

It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

For me, Malayalam is a difficult language. It has got a lot of tongue-twisting words.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

I've been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says 'We can't, it's the accent thing.' For some reason it's a very difficult accent to get right, harder even than Geordie.

To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil.

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.

My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent.

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

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