When I`m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don`t, they`re lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don`t want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you`re not straying.
- Rachel WeiszI think it`s OK to play to your strengths, and if I have a quality of Englishness that people like, I won`t hide that. I`m probably not going to play a junkie and that`s OK because there are other people who will do it better. A view that`s been held for a long time is that the best way to prove oneself as an actor is to play the grittiest roles out there. I don`t agree with that.
- Rosamund PikeI think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.
- Pete Townshend