Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

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

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

I definitely have a Fisher voice.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

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'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.

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.

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

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

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

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

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

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