Martin Henderson Quotes

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

I never really had a strong accent.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.

When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.