I can do accents really well.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
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.
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.
I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.
[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.
Whenever I'm in the U. K. , people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.