“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingAmericaSongAsksSoundEnglandAccents Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.” PeopleMadeStillsRunningFilmTalkingClassMiddleGardenEnglandSillyMiddle ClassSurprisingLoadAccents Author:Stephen Daldry
“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.” PersonsSocialNaturalDifferencesClassAirStreetsStyleDrugEnglandRelationDressesTrainStoresBackgroundsMannersDriversAccentsAssistantsStrollingCabSnobberyDeferenceHostessesSocial RelationsCab DriversBarmenClass Differences Author:Anthony Crosland
“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.” KindHas BeensKidsAgeSeriousBeatsEnglandNotesEastLondonBoxingCanadaTwelveAccentsTauntingCockneysEast London Author:Lennox Lewis
“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.” PeopleIfsLittlesYoungMotherActorsFatherStrongEnglandDeterminedSpokesVery StrongAccentsAustralianEnglishmenScots Author:George Ogilvie
“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsLongTwoSchoolThreeHoursFourWeekHugeDramaEnglandCoachesBackgroundsShootingFour YearsAccentsThree TimesSessionNuanceDialectThailandSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsSchoolFourHugeDramaEnglandBackgroundsFour YearsAccentsNuanceSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.” HouseEnglandAccentsNew EnglandCiderHouse Rules Author:Michael Caine
“I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a British accent. When they talk to me, at first they go, "Man, you have a great American accent," and I go, "No, no, no, this is my accent. I don't do accents." And then they're really disappointed, and they try to punch me.” PeopleThinkingMenTryingFirstsInterestingEnglandBritishDisappointedAccentsMost InterestingInteresting ThingsTalk To MeGreat American Author:Rich Fulcher
“People think that I live in England and have a British accent.” PeopleThinkingEnglandBritishAccents Author:Rich Fulcher
“My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.” WholeChangedEnglandBritishWhole LifeAccents Author:Toks Olagundoye
“I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.” ThinkingWayReasonLanguageEnglandMy WayReason WhyAccentsOld Fashioned Author:Sylvia Plath
“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.” WantClassEnglandAccents Author:Sting
“The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.” PeopleLooksPersonsMadeStoriesWould BeGuyClassEnglandBritishBackgroundsComicCinemaLook UpVillainAccentsWorking ClassRottenCiphers Author:Michael Caine
“Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.” ThinkingFirstsHomeEyeMovingLeftMemoriesStreetsFineLuckyFirst TimeEnglandCrowdsSuitsAccentsHer EyesBack HomeTeaseBritsMoving Back Author:Becca Fitzpatrick
“What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentHardSchoolAmericaYoungStudyHard WorkDramaTrainingEuropeEnglandTechniqueAccents Author:Joan Collins
“If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.” IfsHas BeensGoneEnglandAccents Author:Antonio Banderas