Brad Pitt Quotes

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

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 still true to my Southern roots.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

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

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

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

St. Louis is a very interesting city in terms of accents.

When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.

We're just Southern people.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

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.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

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

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

If you go to Paris, try to speak French. If you go to the South, try to speak Southern. Southern isn't stupid. Southern is narrative; Southern is family.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.