Margot Robbie Quotes

I still keep my accent.

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

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

Today, actors aren't forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example's Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien - and fantastic. It's sad that when the likes of him go, there won't be those sorts of accents any more.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.

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.