Rob Lowe Quotes

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

I love accents.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

The people of Pakistan are some of the most hospitable, kinds and generous people I have met anywhere, in the over 70 countries I have visited in my lifetime.

What I hold dear is well-known to all of my colleagues. And, really, The Times is the kind of place, the greatest journalism doesn't just pop forth from our heads. It's, you know, a group of people, and the great ideas bubble up from the reporters to their editors and get to us.

I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing [in Valerian].You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that they are comparing it to, which would perhaps provide deeper sustenance than many contemporary novels.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it. So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.