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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.

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

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

I have a funny accent in every language.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

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

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

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

It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.