Accent Reduction Quotes

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.

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.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

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.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

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

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

I want to speak better English.

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

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.

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.

Despite his South Indian connection, my husband Rohit doesn't have an accent at all.

I'm going to try to continue to try to speak English because I live in the United States.

I still have perfect diction!