Kelly Macdonald Quotes

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.

When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'

Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

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 would pay good money for a British accent.

I find the idea of doing what you do over and over again to be incredibly boring.

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.