“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!” — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character. — Kodi Smit-McPhee Copy Share Image
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the… — Sasha Jackson Copy Share Image
I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the… — Gregg Sulkin Copy Share Image
I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles.… — Ben Chaplin Copy Share Image
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
In fact, I was very conscious of my accent and used to hesitate in talking to people. — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
