I've always had facility with the German accent.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

— Franka Potente

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or…

— Peter Hermann

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“Morning, Peter,” she calls from the back, in her exaggerated German accent. Mawning, Pedder. She’s been in the States more than fifteen years now,…

— Michael Cunningham

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon

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

— La Rouchefoucauld

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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 a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

— Lynn Samuels

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

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

— Amit Kalantri