Killian Scott Quotes

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

I love accents.

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

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

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

I have a funny accent in every language.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

One of the challenges obviously with doing an accent from a time period early in history is that there aren't recordings. You would never really get the opportunity to hear exactly what you were shooting for.

I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

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

I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like, 'I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny because he talks funny.' And now I feel like there are certain characters that I could play that could involve doing a thicker accent, as long as it's specific to that character.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.