America Quote by Idris Elba

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the…

— Dominic Purcell

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 think one of the main differences between being an English actor and being an American actor is that we have things like the…

— Rafe Spall

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents…

— Ben Mendelsohn

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

I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind…

— India de Beaufort

When I'm playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness…

— Rachel Weisz

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do…

— Margot Robbie

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey…

— Robert Pattinson

Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good…

— Jeremy Irvine

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to…

— David Tennant