Michael Faraday Quotes

'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

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.

There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.

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

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!

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'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

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

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.

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

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

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.

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

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.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

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.