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

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

He was concerned about how the British accents would translate, and sometimes we rerecorded lines to make things clearer,

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

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.