Christopher Eccleston
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I used my skills in a negative way to make money for crack. CURTIS JENKINS I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who ... PERSIS KHAMBATTA JENNIFER EHLE BARBARA WALTERS BRENDAN FRANCIS I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interv... KATE O'MARA SAMANTHA FOX DIANE KRUGER I sat in the stands all week and perfected my Canadian accent, KLETE KELLER I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent. LESLIE NIELSEN REBECCA HALL My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the... ASHLEY JENSEN BELA LUGOSI JOHN OLIVER JARED DIAMOND ERIC LINDROS I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was ... RITA MORENO GRACE JONES I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was al... EMILY MORTIMER EMMA WATSON I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't. MAIA MITCHELL BARBARA WALTERS IOAN GRUFFUDD Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ... DICK VAN DYKE Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would... BRANDON ROUTH My accent depends on whom I'm around. CLAIRE FORLANI EVA MENDES Anyone who celebrates a regional accent as anything other than quaint fails to see that anywhere in ... LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivi... CHARLOTTE CHURCH I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be v... EIZA GONZALEZ BILLY IDOL MICHAEL CAINE CHRISTOPH WALTZ They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent. CLEO MOORE Now how would an officer come to such a presumption: would it be because the person 'did not look Am... TRACI HONG love Étienne. STEPHANIE PERKINS I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. JANET MCTEER SALMA HAYEK MARGOT ROBBIE I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. JAMES CARR I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British ... CONSTANCE WU What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that'... ADHIR KALYAN JEFF SESSIONS ED WEEKS Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this ... ADHIR KALYAN SOFIA VERGARA ASHLEY BELL I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend ... POPPY MONTGOMERY I will try to expand it so I take up the whole 60 seconds. I may be selective in my history of human... ALAN CHARLES KORS America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ... AHMET ERTEGUN Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny. ZEDD I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#... SAUL RUBINEK I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an ac... D. B. SWEENEY DJIMON HOUNSOU Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. DESI ARNAZ CHRIS HEMSWORTH MERYL STREEP GUY PEARCE Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an A... TANIT PHOENIX If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that ve... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New Yor... NIKKI DELOACH I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w... CALLAN MCAULIFFE People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' a... STEWART COPELAND LAWRENCE WELK I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets. XAVIER SAMUEL JAMES ELLROY AMIT KALANTRI EVA GREEN I have a funny accent in every language. CARMEN BUSQUETS JOHN OLIVER By the time that I grabbed my little boy and my dog and got down the stairs you could see the blinds... MANDIE SARGENT TATIANA MASLANY PRIYANKA CHOPRA LARRY THE CABLE GUY Professor Stokes has a more cultured accent, and in many ways, he is the hardest one to do, because ... THAYER DAVID ZACH JOHNSON HOLLY HUNTER BOBBIE ANN MASON Charlene's thoughts:DEANIE HUMPHRYS-DUNNE I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I h... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am. RICKY WHITTLE RICHELLE MEAD ANDIE MACDOWELL BRION JAMES
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... 
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in any... 
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. ... 
I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours. 
When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my o... 
What saved me was my accent, I think I was a bit of a novelty. Otherwise, I certainly didn't have th... 
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the fin... 
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R'... 
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R'... 
I still keep my accent. 
I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with. 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the pr... 
A Southern accent is not a club in my bag. 
I personally am not conscious of my accent. 
Gone In 60 Seconds. 
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked reall... 
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... 
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce m... 
I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Lo... 
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best ... 
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. 
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has ... 
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche v... 
It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him.
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't ha... 
When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I j... 
who happen to speak with an accent, a southern accent. 
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange. 
Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personalit... 
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It w... 
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. 
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... 
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' ... 
Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was... 
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did... 
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the worl... 
It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish. 
I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... 
Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But t... 
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told ... 
I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up ... 
Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a ... 
This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to ... 
With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of car... 
The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's gir... 
In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up b... 
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. 
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el... 
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We do... 
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage a... 
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t... 
My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is... 
Accurst be he that first invented war. 
Confess and be hanged. 
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. 
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up ... 
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a... 
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... 
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out... 
When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the... 
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t... 
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m... 
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. 
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res... 
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. 
I now walk into the wild. 
I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen... 
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. 
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi... 
There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu... 
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g... 
I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam... 
Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc... 
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g... 
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail... 
...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority... 
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. 
Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu... 
Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe... 
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes... 
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. 
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... 
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... 
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... 
The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. 
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. 
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... 
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour... 
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. 
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... 
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. 
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... 
I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... 
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy... 