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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received  (Foreign Accents Quotes) How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, ‘I’m going to the store,’ it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it’s said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool  (Foreign Accents Quotes) I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don’t go together. So they would give me a foreign accent  (Foreign Accents Quotes) I’m completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it’s quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That’s why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.  (Foreign Accents Quotes) We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news  (Foreign Accents Quotes)