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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

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

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.