Jeremy Irvine Quotes

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

I know Asian actors out there won't even audition for a role that have an accent. But for me, I was the kid with an accent. I still have an accent to some degree.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

There's sometimes an accent on TV and it's like 'are you American?', because I can kind of pick up on it a little bit and I never want to be in that position.

For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.