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.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA 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.

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

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

I used to go to auditions with an American accent, but now I don't - so they know where I'm from.

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