Lee Pace Quotes

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

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 know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

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

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

I love accents.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

I never really had a strong accent.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

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

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.