Samantha Fox Quotes

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

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

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

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

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.

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

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.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

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.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Within a language, you have your roots, your culture, and I think and dream in Bassa. We have 260 languages in Cameroon, but the official ones are French and English.

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

I love accents.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.