Iwan Rheon Quotes

I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.

I love accents.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very British. I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

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

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of Super Bowl. We have that every day: lunch and dinner. We play that game. Then you come home and you really just want to drink a beer. But then you discipline yourself and you have to do this thing, this journal. It was painful but I'm so happy I did it. I have newfound respect for people that write.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home.