Aneurin Barnard Quotes

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

I've played American characters before, so I've naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.

I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I never, ever was able to do a part without assuming some kind of accent.

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.

When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

I can do so many accents that I'll never be able to use. There aren't casting calls for a black guy to play a Scottish highlander. I can hope. I've got my brogue ready. I just need the opportunity!

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

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.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.