Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bob Thornton

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

Archie Panjabi

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.

Andrew Scott

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Henry Sweet

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Martin Henderson

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Odeya Rush

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Emily Carr

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Bryant H. McGill

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Diane Keaton

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Abby Wambach

You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

Chuck Lorre

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Anne Tyler

My stories are never quite good enough

Anne Rice

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Bob Woodward

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Betty White

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Edwin Louis Cole

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Carrie Fisher

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Carrie Fisher

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Ashton Kutcher

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Ajay Naidu

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Benjamin Bratt

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Carice van Houten

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Catherine McCormack

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Catherine Keener

I know many great actors who have small heads.