British Quotes

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.