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  • Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent. -- Andie MacDowell
  • Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British. -- Natalie Massenet
  • It's quite true of everything: the British accent does open doors. -- Ryan Cartwright
  • Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. -- Joss Whedon
  • When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent. -- Matthew Rhys
  • I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one. -- Rachel Bilson
  • I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though. -- Chris Lilley
  • Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. -- Nick Park
  • I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. -- Gary Oldman
  • I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent. -- Rachel McAdams
  • It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do. -- Martin Henderson
  • Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. -- Madeleine Stowe
  • 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. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
  • People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. -- John Mahoney
  • I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people. -- John Oliver
  • America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English. -- Lily Cole
  • I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that. -- Ryan Cartwright
  • I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself. -- John Oliver
  • I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent. -- Kevin McKidd
  • I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The British accent does open doors. -- Ryan Cartwright
  • The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore. -- Bill Maher
  • I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels! -- Austin Butler
  • When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out. -- Nick Park
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