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It's easier to act in your own accent.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

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

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'

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

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

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

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.