Cynthia Erivo Quotes

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

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

I have a funny accent in every language.

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

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

What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?

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

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

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

I love accents.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

I can do accents really well.

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.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

I would like to be a polyglot.

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.

I have a good ear for languages.

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.