Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first...
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.
The Southern Oracle: [as Atreyu approaches the Glowing Blue Sphinx Statues that resemble the ones from the First Gate] Do not be afraid! We will not harm you! We have been waiting for you a long time, Atreyu! Atreyu: Are you the Southern Oracle? The ...
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
