I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.