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I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.