Franka Potente Quotes

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

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

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

It's liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me as a public figure, that I talk about in English.

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I have a funny accent in every language.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

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.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

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

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

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

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.