The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas…

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

— James Purefoy

“The American Dream isn’t dead, but it seems to have developed a Texas accent.”

— Mark Davis

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

— Powers Boothe

When you lose at Texas, you're going to be bashed. I accept it.

— Mack Brown

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

— Michael Caine

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing…

— Ioan Gruffudd

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

— David Tennant

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

— Ewan McGregor

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids.…

— Kevin McKidd

Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.”

— La Rouchefoucauld

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

— Lynn Samuels

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.”

— Amit Kalantri