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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.
If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.