Lake Bell Quotes

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

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.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

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.

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

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

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.

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

I would pay good money for a British accent.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

I can do accents really well.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.