Famous Quotes & Sayings

We choose a canvas based on the specific work. There are split-hair types, but we have a sense of what will accentuate the artist?s vision.

We're very excited about our new tenant opening in Columbia Mall. It fills the need for another entertainment option in Columbia and is a great accent to all the new renovations that have taken place here in the last 14 months.

Carlos Ponce

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

Joseph Conrad

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Mia Wasikowska

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Theodore Bikel

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

Lake Bell

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

Mercedes Ruehl

I've always had facility with the German accent.

If companies work with outsourcers to build a structure that requires accent neutralization, cultural affinity, and a company product background -- if it makes the investment in their people -- then the performance could be good. But if they are merely going to a lowest-cost location, to an area that has already been mined for agents with English proficiency, then their customer service will falter.

William Shakespeare

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Andie MacDowell

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

Rex Reed

I had some problems with his accent it was like he was talking with two fingers on his tongue. But he got that thing Truman did with his eye right. He was always rubbing it. So I guess it was pretty close.

Salma Hayek

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

I wanted the person with the Southern accent to be the smartest person in the room.

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

Ryan Cartwright

It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors.

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.

By making the tests standardized, regional accents will be removed, pauses between sounds would be constant and overall consistency would vastly improve.

I remember the first time I ever drove through deep, southern West Virginia. I couldn't even understand the accent of the people there, you know. They couldn't understand me. West Virginia, actually, is a state that's made up of some different kinds of communities.

Kevin McKidd

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

I have to be journalistically appropriate and voice my opinion if something happens, but I want to do my best to accentuate the positives of the sport.

I have to identify the negatives and accentuate the positives.

Mark Twain

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

I don't know if it was her accent or if she just didn't have anything to say. But if that's the reason she's playing better, than that's fine with me.

Casey Affleck

A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style.

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.

Holly Hunter

This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to the table.

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.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

Andie MacDowell

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

Ricky Whittle

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Joey Santiago

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

Lynn Samuels

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.