Accent Pride Quotes

It's my mission to get the New Zealand accent into a Hollywood show. I'm proud of the way we talk, and I'm here to represent it. Kiwis are everywhere: they're in every city of the world. I've checked. We have a voice... it's a bit of a funny one at times, but it's one that I want to promote.

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

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

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

Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.

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

I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!

I still keep my accent.

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.

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

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.