Drama Quote by Jimmy Smits

Today, actors aren't forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example's Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great…

— Matt Berry

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent. It kind of removes me, somehow.…

— Ellen Page

I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different…

— Luke Evans

I believe a good actor does not have an accent of his own.

— Mukul Dev

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of an insult…

— Jimmy O. Yang

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

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

— Carla Gugino

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

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

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never…

— Idris Elba

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against…

— Ethan Hawke

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time…

— Jean Reno