Powers Boothe Quotes

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

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

I like a New York accent.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

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

I talk funny 'cause I come from Canada.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

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.