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They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.
If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.
As I am a Bengali and am used to conversing in Bengali and English, I thought my Hindi would show an accent.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.
As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
I have a smaller bottom lip, but in 'Wheeler,' I had a lip over my lip. It's fat, and it helped with my accent.
To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.
Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.
Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.
There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'
People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.
I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.