Julia Garner Quotes

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

I still have perfect diction!

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll still be like what, so now he's got me yellin. Man that tree is far away

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

Choose each word as a precision tool. Consider how it sounds, not how it reads.

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.