Accent Mastery Quotes

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

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

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

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

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

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.

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

I'd never gotten to do an accent for anything that I've done, so that was really appealing because I love doing accents. Ever since I was a kid, I made it my business to try to mimic foreign accents, so it was really fun to be able to do that. I was really working on the accent to try to make it really good.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

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.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

Accents are definitely one of my strong suits, and a lot of folks don't know that.

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.

Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'

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.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.