Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

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

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

I can do accents really well.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

My English is good because I have a good ear.

Accents are very easy for me.

I have a good ear for languages.

I'm pretty good with languages.

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 pick up languages fast.

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that it goes into their brain and just comes out. Chameleon voices.

I want to speak Spanish fluently; that's on my bucket list.

Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.

I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.

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.

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

When people heard my voice, they were shocked that I could speak Hindi.