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I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

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

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

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.