Foreign Accent Quotes

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

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

Every time I get in an Uber in L.A., they're like, 'Oh, great accent. Are you from Australia?' I constantly have to repeat myself when I'm in North America because no one understands a word I'm saying.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

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

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

No one can understand my accent!

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

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

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.