What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I…

I think I might try and get into cricket commentary once I've finished singing.

— Lily Allen

There's a lot of similarities with everything I try to do with my cricket - it's no different now to my business. You want…

— Michael Clarke

Nice try, cricket. But you're still cricket.

— Nikhil Saluja

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked…

— Art Malik

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

— Toby Jones

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first…

— Rebel Wilson

When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different…

— Lennie James

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

— Michael Caine

It's just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour…

— Deshaun Watson

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But…

— Emily Blunt

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

— Johnny Damon

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

— Alan Greenspan

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about…

— Hideki Matsui