Adhir Kalyan Quotes

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

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.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

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

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.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

In animation, no one gets to see your face, so you can really mess up with your voice like I did 'ParaNorman;' I was a bully in that, which was so much fun to do. In 'How to Train Your Dragon,' I'm a little Viking character. So, it's kind of exciting to play these roles that you normally wouldn't get to play in a live-action movie.

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