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I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

~Adelaide Kane

Topics: Accent Always American American Accent Back Been Classes Favorite Favorite Shows Getting Good Hard Just Learned Me Mimic Never Phonetics Really Right Say Shows Studied Taking Teacher Terms Until Watching Words Would

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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.

~Archie Panjabi

Topics: Accent American American Accent Another Bit Coach Come Deep Dialect Get Had Mysterious Off Something Then Too Voice

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I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

~Ashley Jensen

Topics: About Accent America American American Accent Back Britain Grow Grow Up Head Knew Made Next Next Thing People Prospect Remark Some Son Suggesting Thing Unhappy Up Wanting Were

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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Accent American American Accent Based Diary First Girl Graphic Labs Movie Novel Play Screenplay Someone Sundance Teenage Teenage Girl Then Turned Which Who Written Wrote

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I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

~Billy Idol

Topics: Accent American American Accent Become Gone Not Talking Off Talking

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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Accent All Day America American American Accent Creators Day Did Ease English Everyone God He Him Hire Just Makeup Off Oh Oh My God Show Stay Think Till Up Wake Wake Up Want Why Working

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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Accent All Day America American American Accent Day Idiots Make-Up Off Stay Those Till Up Wake Wake Up Working

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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Accent American American Accent Enough Flip Good Not Good Enough Out

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I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Accent American American Accent Americanized Foreign Me Wife

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I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

~Eileen Atkins

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