Katy Mixon Quotes

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

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

I just wasn't meant to do Shakespeare. I'm not vocally equipped; I've got this flat, nasal, East Anglian voice. I got to understand the fantastic words Shakespeare wrote but never got to fly with them.

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

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.

When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I'm not from there.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.