I'm obsessed with accents.

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

— Amit Kalantri

I've been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day, whether it's…

— Paul Walter Hauser

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

— Anthony Bourdain

When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost every single…

— Trevor Noah

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I…

— John Oliver

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

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find…

— Eileen Atkins