After Quote by Marsha Thomason

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

— Franka Potente

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

— Michael Caine

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

— Daniel Craig

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many…

— Noel Clarke

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

— Randall Park

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

— Mel Smith

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country.…

— Carice van Houten

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

— Norman Jewison

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me…

— Daniel Wu

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

— Michael Caine