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My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable [hearing myself sing], I sang in another accent.

These guys are characters, and that's one of the things that got ESPN very excited, ... They don't look so perfect. They've got strange regional accents and odd facial hair. They've lived a lot of life and they look like it. And they are also superb at what they do.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

I can do accents really well.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.