I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked…

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

What I'm known for - 'Game of Thrones,' 'Star Wars' - they film in England, but they're American productions. Because American productions are willing…

— Jessica Henwick

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

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

— Jeremy London

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 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 was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

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

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this…

— Hong Chau

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often,…

— Chadwick Boseman

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent…

— Gregg Sulkin

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang