Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mitchell

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.

Bruce Beresford

So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors?' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different.

Alex Pareene

Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

Kirby Heyborne

I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought I was Welsh.

Ryan Cartwright

I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The British accent does open doors.

Rupert Friend

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

Liam Hemsworth

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

Jonathan LaPaglia

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

Robert Carlyle

I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rod Barnes

The thing that has helped him, our guys are so close. This is a close-knit group. I think that's one of the reasons why he came back. Most kids in that situation wouldn't have played today. But he made the commitment to come back, and I think the guys were excited to see him and really welcome him.

Stan Heath

The thing that got them over the top was Rondo's penetration. Time after time, where the shot clock was winding down with five or six seconds to go, he came up with the play. That's what great players do.

Jonathan Galassi

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Mark Shapiro

I've always liked and respected Paul. I've followed his career and made sure to say hello to him when he came to town.

Robbie Robertson

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

Wilson Betemit

I waited for my turn here because this is the team that gave me the opportunity. If they want to trade me or something, that's not my decision. I came here to play baseball.

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Scott Teeters

They were excited the whole week. They were excited to swim fast. They were happy that we had a good meet. We dropped a lot of times. I was really pleased with our youngsters that stepped it up and really dropped a lot time.

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Tom Wilson

We want to get them all into school.

Gwen Cote

There is no school in northeastern New York that is accredited.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Stephen Browning

You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning,

Robert Kiyosaki

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.