Accent Challenge Quotes

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

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

For me, when I did 'Thor,' they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent - and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day - never happened to me before.

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

I got cast in [Punisher: War Zone] and showed up in Montreal two days before the film started, and they said, "We need you to do a New York accent." And I was, like, "What?! Why didn't you tell me this, oh, I don't know, two weeks ago, when you cast me?".

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.

It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'