Ryan Lochte Quotes

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

I still have perfect diction!

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.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll still be like what, so now he's got me yellin. Man that tree is far away

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

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

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be delivered. It's a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.