Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I have a funny accent in every language.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

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.

I'm already really aware and self-conscious of my accent.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

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

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.

I like a New York accent.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I was born and raised in Derry and I can't change the way I talk.