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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

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

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

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.

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

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