Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

- Brandon Routh

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

- Claire Forlani

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

- Christina Ricci

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

- Chris Lilley

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

- Christian Bale

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

- Cheech Marin

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

- Cate Blanchett

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

- Bel Powley

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

- Brion James

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.

- Brendan Gleeson

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

- Alan Rickman

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

- Billy Idol

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

- Annalena McAfee

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

- Anthony LaPaglia

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

- Abbey Lee Kershaw

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

- Alessandro Nivola

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

- Ahmet Ertegun

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

- Alice Englert

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

- Abigail Breslin

Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

- Andie MacDowell