Norman Reedus Quotes

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

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.

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

People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

Sometimes in the mainstream movies, a character who is from the South is portrayed by a person who looks like a South Indian but speaks in fake accent.

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad heart. And I think that's one of the things living in a world with Powers would do: it's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly. It would change them socially and sexually, everything would be altered because of superheroes.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.