Regional Dialect Quotes

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

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

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.

In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.

You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

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

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of an international company. But then when I'm talking to someone in a factory, it's just like being with my mum's mates.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.