I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.
I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.
Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
Mulwray's Gardener: [in heavy Japanese accent, referring to the grass] Bad for glass. Jake Gittes: Yeah, sure. Bad for the glass.
Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now. Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?
Princess Tilde: [In a thick, Swedish accent] If you save the world, We can do it in the asshole.
I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.
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.
My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
