Drunk Quote by Clint Mansell

I've been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says 'We can't, it's the accent thing.' For some…

— Steven Knight

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

— Jamie Blackley

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than…

— Piers Morgan

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to.…

— Christopher Guest

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go…

— Iwan Rheon

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then…

— John Oliver

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

— Esther McVey

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

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

— Lake Bell

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you…

— Joss Stone

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

— Jimmy O. Yang

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

— Thomas Beecham