“Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see i...” — Tatiana Maslany Quote

“Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.”

“I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.”

“Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.”

“Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.”

“I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.”