Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Sweet

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Archie Panjabi

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Billy Bob Thornton

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

Andrew Scott

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Thomas Hardy

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Mason Cooley

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Martin Henderson

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.

Herbie Hancock

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make.

Tom White

They have fabulous British accents and they are really fun with their British invasion music.

Thomas Campion

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

Nick Park

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Nick DeWitz

I've never been a post-up player. I think of posting up as something that accents my game. I didn't want to be put there at first. I'm not David Lucas and I'm not Kyle Jeffers. I do a little bit of everything. Basically, it was finding my role on the team because it changed from last year. I'm just trying to adapt to it. I'm not going to play post ever again in my life.

Margot Robbie

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.

Kate Winslet

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Christiane Amanpour

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Craig Ferguson

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

Rajneesh

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Lord Chesterfield

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.