Tan France Quotes

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

I have a funny accent in every language.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

I love accents.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

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

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

I would be criticized, like, 'You don't talk Korean enough. You sound very American. You sound very white in your music.' And I'm like, 'Whoa.'