Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I've played American characters before, so I've naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

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

I just wasn't meant to do Shakespeare. I'm not vocally equipped; I've got this flat, nasal, East Anglian voice. I got to understand the fantastic words Shakespeare wrote but never got to fly with them.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.