Accents Quote by Peter Ackroyd

I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.…

— Fiona Hill

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become…

— Michael Caine

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be…

— Sting

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

— Gemma Arterton

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 was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I…

— Eileen Myles

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a…

— Stephen Fry

I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very…

— Robbie Coltraine

A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.

— Caroline Calloway

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC…

— Steph McGovern

I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child…

— Gina Bellman

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from…

— Jo Cox