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American Accent Quotes
What an accent gives away, and what it hides.
An American accent turns out to be harder to control than people assume here — one actor admits it's tricky to switch back and forth with Spanish, another says fans are disappointed to hear it at all, expecting an English voice instead.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
- Australians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.
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- Nov 07, 2020