Alice Englert Quotes

I have a funny accent in every language.

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.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.

When I go to Korea and they say, 'Sing like a Korean person,' I can't do it. I didn't grow up with that sound.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

I love accents.

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

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

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I still keep my accent.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Languages are the pedigrees of nations.

I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.

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

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.

When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants in the area, a lot of the kids didn't speak a lick of English, either. It was normal to have a wicked accent.

My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.