Franz Grillparzer Quotes

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Choose each word as a precision tool. Consider how it sounds, not how it reads.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

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

I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.

It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an 'e.' Auli'i Cravalho.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

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

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

I thought I had a pretty good American accent but I had a few sessions with a voice coach over there and she was picking up on a few things. Possibly because I've got such a strong Northern accent, I emphasise the wrong part of words so the idea is to work on my American accent.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

"In the beginning was the word" and that's the thing about Krishna, saying Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, so it's not the word that you're saying, it's the sound: Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna and it's just sounds and it's great.

I hate to say "found himself" - it sounds so ridiculous.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.