Accents Quote by Stephen Fry

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that…

— Stephen Fry

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

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

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

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

— Jimmy O. Yang

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just…

— Radha Mitchell

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

— Sean Connery

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

— Janet McTeer

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

— Paloma Faith

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

— Natalie Massenet

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

— Billy Bob Thornton