Accent Preservation Quotes

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

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'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

I still keep my accent.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.

I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.

I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.