Learning a new language is very, very different from doing…

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

— Amit Kalantri

“Stop it,” Adrian ordered, his strange accent thicker with his vehemence. “I promise, I’m not going to hurt you!”

— Jeaniene Frost

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!”

— Russell T Davies

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

— Lynn Samuels

My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

— Roma Downey

I definitely am from Australia...you can tell by my accent!

— Cody Simpson

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

— Rita Moreno

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on…

— Rod Lurie

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there…

— Steph McGovern

I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.

— Emily Ratajkowski

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

— La Rouchefoucauld

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

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as…

— Max Barry

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