No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
Can we get out of here?" "Your chariot awaits." "In the form of a blue Ford ute?" I curved my brow. "But of course," he said in an over-the-top French accent. "Sacre blur, bad accent alert!" "Wow," he said, "Le rude?" "Le sorry?" "Le hurt." Toby clut...
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.
