Megalyn Echikunwoke Quotes

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I love doing impersonations of people.

I love doing impressions.

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

I've played American characters before, so I've naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.

You can do a lot of impromptu in dubbing. You can bring in different characters and different accents.

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like, 'I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny because he talks funny.' And now I feel like there are certain characters that I could play that could involve doing a thicker accent, as long as it's specific to that character.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.