Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history but Southern identity now has more to do with food accents manners music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent which hand you eat your food with has some deeper symbolic truth reality.

But I just know from experience that accent wise even if you're an accent genius crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

To me anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

Unless it's a specific accent or something about physicality you have to change I am generally not such a conscious actor.

I learned to change my accent in England your accent identifies you very strongly with a class and I did not want to be held back.

In Paris one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I remember walking the dog one day I saw a car full of teenage girls and one of them rolled down the window and yelled 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.