Kunal Nayyar Quotes

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle.

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

I have a funny accent in every language.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

I love accents.

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I spoke Franglais growing up.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

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.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

Despite his South Indian connection, my husband Rohit doesn't have an accent at all.

When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants in the area, a lot of the kids didn't speak a lick of English, either. It was normal to have a wicked accent.