Florian Schneider Quotes

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

I can do accents really well.

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

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.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

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

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

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

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.

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

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.

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.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

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

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.