Neil Jordan Quotes

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

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.

Today, actors aren't forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example's Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien - and fantastic. It's sad that when the likes of him go, there won't be those sorts of accents any more.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

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

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

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

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

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

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

I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.

For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the language our characters spoke to be as specific as possible, to reflect New York as it is.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.