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.

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

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.