Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I can do accents really well.

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

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.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

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.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

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.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

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.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.