Abbey Lee Kershaw Quotes

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.

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

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

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.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

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

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.

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

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 can do accents really well.

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.

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

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

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.

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.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

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.

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

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.'

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.