Michael W. Smith Quotes

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

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

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

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 think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

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.

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.

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.

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.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

I love the Midwest 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 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.

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

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

You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

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

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

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.