Hugh Grant Quotes

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 American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'

I have a funny accent in every language.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

My mum won't speak to me unless I speak properly on the phone. I have to speak 'American' for work, so often the accent comes through when I'm not at work.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

I'd never gotten to do an accent for anything that I've done, so that was really appealing because I love doing accents. Ever since I was a kid, I made it my business to try to mimic foreign accents, so it was really fun to be able to do that. I was really working on the accent to try to make it really good.