The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

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I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

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I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

Nicki Minaj

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I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

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I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

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Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Rosa Luxemburg

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

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As we advance closer and closer to attaining that tomorrow of our dreams, we need not only align, but must pull together, to shrug off tendencies and avoid strictures that accentuate our fault lines

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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

C. C. H. Pounder

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Salma Hayek

I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

Skepta

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Emma Watson

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Erma Bombeck

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Idris Elba

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Viola Davis

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

Nicki Minaj

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Nicki Minaj

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Orlando Bloom

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

Ruth Negga

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Rosa Luxemburg

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

James Franco

As we advance closer and closer to attaining that tomorrow of our dreams, we need not only align, but must pull together, to shrug off tendencies and avoid strictures that accentuate our fault lines

Benedict Ayade

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" Quotes and Sayings About accent

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

C. C. H. Pounder

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Salma Hayek

I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

Skepta

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Emma Watson

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Erma Bombeck

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Idris Elba

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Viola Davis

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

Nicki Minaj

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Nicki Minaj

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Orlando Bloom

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

Ruth Negga

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Rosa Luxemburg

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

James Franco

As we advance closer and closer to attaining that tomorrow of our dreams, we need not only align, but must pull together, to shrug off tendencies and avoid strictures that accentuate our fault lines

Benedict Ayade

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