“The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that i...” — Marion Cotillard Quote

“The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.”

“As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”

“It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.”

“I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.”

“I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.”

“I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.”

“I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.”

“I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and kind of in my voice, no accent no affectation. I'm growing into my own persona.”

“Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.”

“I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'”

“For creating the Texan accent, I would listen to Sissy Spacek and watch her in 'Badlands.' I downloaded the audio of that whole film and listened to that.”

“Christine Boar, who gave me my first screen test at MTV, saw something in me others hadn't. She liked my accent and didn't ask me to change it.”