Mollie King Quotes

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

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York 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 would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.

I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.

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.

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

I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

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

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

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I'm not from there.

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

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

Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.