Will Poulter Quotes

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

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

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Colossus' voice is not much different than mine, as Tim loved my natural color and range of voice, so we kept it and worked more on the Russian accent. The best note I received was to be authentic.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

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

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