Steph McGovern Quotes

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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.

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

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

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

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.

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

I love the Midwest accent.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.

I still keep my accent.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

Patriots Nation is loud, they have sick accents.

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!