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Wound: [British Accent] Blimey! that quite hit the spot, Eric. Benny: But my name is Benny. Wound: You can't fool me, Eric. You see I am no ordinary wound. For I am British. Benny: I think I'm going crazy. Wound: Nonsense. I would contend that your are... going sane. – The Shivering Truth	added by timothyj.29104 1 year ago
I wouldn't say that's why I've ventured into acting, but it was just a bit shocking the first time I was able to speak, you know, doing a silly voice or an accent pretending to be someone else, people don't talk about [ it ] enough if it hasn't got enough exposure, and millions of people around the world struggle with it. – Emily Blunt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We were talking on the phone and she was already Patrizia, her accent was perfect. – Salma Hayek	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Palms, while an iconic part of Miami Beach's landscape, have moved from being an accent plant to a major component of the city's urban forest. – West Palm Beach	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’ve never been to Ireland. I grew up in Australia and had an Aussie accent for the last 20 years since I moved here when I was 8 years old. – Angela Yen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Certainly, the facts will emerge, but we are right to ask, 'Why can't we put the accent on preserving life, childen's lives,' as opposed to simply assuming, the best we can do is simply kill another child. – Jake Tapper	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. – Lee Strasberg	added by Normando 3 years ago
It was very strictly, like, the joke was on the accent. – Rizwan Manji	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It makes me feel good -- because I see young people ready to jump in, not caring about who Mitch McConnell are, Mitch McConnell religion, the color of Mitch McConnell skin, what's the accent Mitch McConnell have speaking English, they( have) one goal in mind : to make sure that they can provide aid and relief and hope with a smile. – Marcus Samuelsson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I knew that an African accent could carry all of that passion in the English language just as well as a British one could if not better. – Chadwick Boseman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I hope Princess Diana's looking at --- Princess Diana is really hot. Princess Diana has gained 20-25 pounds, Princess Diana looks great, there could be a love interest. I'd become King of England. King of England. I'd have to leave, I'd have to lose the New York accent quickly. See they wouldn't like my accent over there. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
And the city of Chicago needs to awaken itself, if there is a place where you are not respected because of your accent, instead of your intelligence, don't accept it. – Marlen Ochoa-Lopez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As a Latino in a predominately white area, it is very hard, but the reason I decided to run is because I wanted people to know that if a first-generation immigrant from Mexico who still has an accent, who still looks different, can run for office and win, it's huge. – Steve King	Found on CNN 5 years ago
… I just pinch myself when I get to spend time with him on a personal level, i love his outlook on life and how he treats people. He’s really a special person in my life. What I’ve learned from him is how lucky we are to do what we do. He’s always reminding me and it’s comforting to know that it’s people to walk through this life he’s had – working with incredible people, being friends with ex-presidents and world leaders – and still have that perspective. He’s so well-connected, but still just a simple guy from Canada with his little Canadian accent! – Katharine McPhee	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Jared Kushner and Donald Trump picks up the phone and I started talking to The President. I never said to Jared Kushner and Donald Trump that I was Sen. Menendez. I was just talking in my Long Island accent. The thing is, you hear my bad Long Island accent and a voice that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump has talked to so many times, the President wants to be accessible to members and likes engaging them and wants them to have the opportunity to connect. The downside of that is sometimes the channels are open too widely and mistakes like this happen. – John Melendez	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The biggest piece of advice I would give Meghan… stay American, keep your American roots, keep your American accent… Don’t let the weather bring you down. It’s easy to do. And still have that high energy because that is what… I really feel that the English love about Americans. Our optimism, our energy, our go-getting attitude. And the cup is always half-full for us… Keep that and stay rooted in your American traditions and culture. – Julie Montagu	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In the event that a costume complaint arises, a company has a tremendous opportunity to make it better quickly … or far worse, say a white person dressed as the convenience store clerk from ‘ The Simpsons ’ and was speaking in an Indian accent all day. A fellow coworker goes to HR and says she feels uncomfortable. If that person is quickly dismissed... that employee is likely to feel even angrier and who knows what could happen. – Michelle Lee Flores	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Trump is a radical pragmatist who manages to come down on the conservative side more than the liberal side. He’s an opinionated, emotional man who is always full of energy. He enjoys being Donald Trump and all that entails. He sees things through the lens of experience and what he considers to be common sense. He calls ‘em as he sees ‘em. This leads to him changing his mind, as we’ve all seen, a lot. He’s a scrappy billionaire from humble Queens who, despite an Ivy League education, speaks with an accent some consider unsophisticated. He almost never talks about the Constitution or the Founding Fathers which infuriates many conservative intellectuals who think that he is beneath them. – Matthew Vadum	added by anonymous 7 years ago
When I was younger, I was working in Osaka, my accent from the countryside made me very self-conscious and shy, but since my hometown has been registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I'm so proud to introduce it to others. – Matsumoto Seiko	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're working on an RP model, but try to keep Lea Seydoux sounding French, if you have an American accent and a British accent, those will serve you very well as an actor. – Sarah Shepherd	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I get a lot of calls from people who want accent softening, who say,' I want to sound like the queen,'. – Sarah Shepherd	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're one of the few countries in the world that has an acrolect -- an accent of the elite. – Sarah Shepherd	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What I think is really interesting about accents, mainly, is they kind of assign us immediately to a tribe, but they are this ever-changing social history as we're walking about -- what we've been through as well as what we want to get to, i personally change my accent all the time. Sometimes I do it just to mess with waiters by ordering every course in a different accent. – Sarah Shepherd	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we embrace a set of shared values, then it shouldn't matter if you have a 'z' at the end of your name, or your accent might be different, 'cause guess what? There are people in this country, that have accents different from mine and mine's different from theirs. It doesn't matter. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Wound: [British Accent] Blimey! that quite hit the spot, Eric. Benny: But my name is Benny. Wound: You can't fool me, Eric. You see I am no ordinary wound. For I am British. Benny: I think I'm going crazy. Wound: Nonsense. I would contend that your are... going sane.

– The Shivering Truth

added by timothyj.29104
1 year ago

I wouldn't say that's why I've ventured into acting, but it was just a bit shocking the first time I was able to speak, you know, doing a silly voice or an accent pretending to be someone else, people don't talk about [ it ] enough if it hasn't got enough exposure, and millions of people around the world struggle with it.

– Emily Blunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were talking on the phone and she was already Patrizia, her accent was perfect.

– Salma Hayek

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Palms, while an iconic part of Miami Beach's landscape, have moved from being an accent plant to a major component of the city's urban forest.

– West Palm Beach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve never been to Ireland. I grew up in Australia and had an Aussie accent for the last 20 years since I moved here when I was 8 years old.

– Angela Yen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Certainly, the facts will emerge, but we are right to ask, 'Why can't we put the accent on preserving life, childen's lives,' as opposed to simply assuming, the best we can do is simply kill another child.

– Jake Tapper

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

– Lee Strasberg

added by Normando
3 years ago

It was very strictly, like, the joke was on the accent.

– Rizwan Manji

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It makes me feel good -- because I see young people ready to jump in, not caring about who Mitch McConnell are, Mitch McConnell religion, the color of Mitch McConnell skin, what's the accent Mitch McConnell have speaking English, they( have) one goal in mind : to make sure that they can provide aid and relief and hope with a smile.

– Marcus Samuelsson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I knew that an African accent could carry all of that passion in the English language just as well as a British one could if not better.

– Chadwick Boseman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I hope Princess Diana's looking at --- Princess Diana is really hot. Princess Diana has gained 20-25 pounds, Princess Diana looks great, there could be a love interest. I'd become King of England. King of England. I'd have to leave, I'd have to lose the New York accent quickly. See they wouldn't like my accent over there.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

And the city of Chicago needs to awaken itself, if there is a place where you are not respected because of your accent, instead of your intelligence, don't accept it.

– Marlen Ochoa-Lopez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As a Latino in a predominately white area, it is very hard, but the reason I decided to run is because I wanted people to know that if a first-generation immigrant from Mexico who still has an accent, who still looks different, can run for office and win, it's huge.

– Steve King

Found on CNN
5 years ago

… I just pinch myself when I get to spend time with him on a personal level, i love his outlook on life and how he treats people. He’s really a special person in my life. What I’ve learned from him is how lucky we are to do what we do. He’s always reminding me and it’s comforting to know that it’s people to walk through this life he’s had – working with incredible people, being friends with ex-presidents and world leaders – and still have that perspective. He’s so well-connected, but still just a simple guy from Canada with his little Canadian accent!

– Katharine McPhee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Jared Kushner and Donald Trump picks up the phone and I started talking to The President. I never said to Jared Kushner and Donald Trump that I was Sen. Menendez. I was just talking in my Long Island accent. The thing is, you hear my bad Long Island accent and a voice that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump has talked to so many times, the President wants to be accessible to members and likes engaging them and wants them to have the opportunity to connect. The downside of that is sometimes the channels are open too widely and mistakes like this happen.

– John Melendez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The biggest piece of advice I would give Meghan… stay American, keep your American roots, keep your American accent… Don’t let the weather bring you down. It’s easy to do. And still have that high energy because that is what… I really feel that the English love about Americans. Our optimism, our energy, our go-getting attitude. And the cup is always half-full for us… Keep that and stay rooted in your American traditions and culture.

– Julie Montagu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In the event that a costume complaint arises, a company has a tremendous opportunity to make it better quickly … or far worse, say a white person dressed as the convenience store clerk from ‘ The Simpsons ’ and was speaking in an Indian accent all day. A fellow coworker goes to HR and says she feels uncomfortable. If that person is quickly dismissed... that employee is likely to feel even angrier and who knows what could happen.

– Michelle Lee Flores

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Trump is a radical pragmatist who manages to come down on the conservative side more than the liberal side. He’s an opinionated, emotional man who is always full of energy. He enjoys being Donald Trump and all that entails. He sees things through the lens of experience and what he considers to be common sense. He calls ‘em as he sees ‘em. This leads to him changing his mind, as we’ve all seen, a lot. He’s a scrappy billionaire from humble Queens who, despite an Ivy League education, speaks with an accent some consider unsophisticated. He almost never talks about the Constitution or the Founding Fathers which infuriates many conservative intellectuals who think that he is beneath them.

– Matthew Vadum

added by anonymous
7 years ago

When I was younger, I was working in Osaka, my accent from the countryside made me very self-conscious and shy, but since my hometown has been registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I'm so proud to introduce it to others.

– Matsumoto Seiko

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're working on an RP model, but try to keep Lea Seydoux sounding French, if you have an American accent and a British accent, those will serve you very well as an actor.

– Sarah Shepherd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I get a lot of calls from people who want accent softening, who say,' I want to sound like the queen,'.

– Sarah Shepherd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're one of the few countries in the world that has an acrolect -- an accent of the elite.

– Sarah Shepherd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What I think is really interesting about accents, mainly, is they kind of assign us immediately to a tribe, but they are this ever-changing social history as we're walking about -- what we've been through as well as what we want to get to, i personally change my accent all the time. Sometimes I do it just to mess with waiters by ordering every course in a different accent.

– Sarah Shepherd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we embrace a set of shared values, then it shouldn't matter if you have a 'z' at the end of your name, or your accent might be different, 'cause guess what? There are people in this country, that have accents different from mine and mine's different from theirs. It doesn't matter.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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