Nikita Dutta Quotes

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.

I still have that South Indian accent. But I am working on it. Hindi audiences should feel that I am speaking like them and should relate to me.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I discovered that it's not really about the language. It's about how the words are pronounced and the delivery. We have plenty of good English-speaking comedians. It's O.K. if I have my accent, my gestures, my way of speaking.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.