I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.
I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
I feel good about the fact that I finally found something I love. I never lived in one place for very long - that's the way my whole life has been. I was always packing and moving around, staying in Canada, Kentucky, Jersey, St. Louis - it all helped because I was always learning new accents, experiencing different environments.
I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.
What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?
When I was younger, I just liked the sound of different accents, and I used to just play around to see if I could do things. I hear accents like music, so that's what helps me to learn them.
I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.
I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.
When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
It's easier to act in your own accent.
I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.
I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.
When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.
