Accent change Quotes

I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.

I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.

On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.