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Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

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.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

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

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.