Quotes & Sayings About Foreign Accents
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool. — Rachel Nichols

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. — Kate Winslet

I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer. — Jojo Moyes

Personally, I'd rather shove a cactus up my ass, but apparently that option isn't on the table, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off now and get it over with. — Katja Millay

All Angelina Jolie wants to do is do good for people. And she was saying to me: If I could just make one person happy, Joan, I'll die satisfied. I said: Easy! Just give Jennifer Aniston back her husband. — Joan Rivers

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government. — Napoleon Bonaparte

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents. — Dominic Purcell

There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin. — Carole Nelson Douglas

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. — Donna Karan

Integrity is always taking the high road, even it means you have to drive a little slower. — Charles F. Glassman

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. — Jimmy Buffett

Laughter has no foreign accent. — Paul B. Lowney

Ifemelu decided to stop faking an American accent on a sunlit day in July, the same day she met Blaine. It was convincing, the accent. She had perfected, from careful watching of friends and newscasters, the blurring of the t, the creamy roll of the r, the sentences starting with "so," and the sliding response of "oh really," but the accent creaked with consciousness, it was an act of will. It took an effort, the twisting of lip, the curling of tongue. If she were in a panic, or terrified, or jerked awake during a fire, she would not remember how to produce those American sounds. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat. — Jorma Taccone

In another life, I could be a personal shopper. — Jane Rosenthal

I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself.
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I didn't want to share them. Because I didn't want to dilute them — Amor Towles

I'd never gotten to do an accent for anything that I've done, so that was really appealing because I love doing accents. Ever since I was a kid, I made it my business to try to mimic foreign accents, so it was really fun to be able to do that. I was really working on the accent to try to make it really good. — Megalyn Echikunwoke

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area. — Olivier Martinez

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. — Christiane Amanpour