John Dunne Quotes

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

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

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

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

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

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 like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

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

When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

I can do accents really well.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.