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I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

I never really had a strong accent.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

For me, when I did 'Thor,' they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent - and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day - never happened to me before.