Rachel Skarsten Quotes

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

I have a funny accent in every language.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

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

Nobody is a perfect actor.

I like to say good dialogue is a million times easier to memorize than bad dialogue - difficult good dialogue, even if it's difficult. Aaron Sorkin dialogue is easier to memorize, even though it's wildly complicated.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

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

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

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.