Top 1200 British Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not!

I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.

I love how British guys dress for the cold.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

Proportional representation is as British as first-past-the-post.

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

British summers give me a really happy feeling.

British people do not like being bossed around.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

The British public cannot be treated like fools.

I'm a bit disappointed British Bobsleigh haven't yet been in touch.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

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

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

I like the differences between American and British television dramas.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put this small group under certain conditions and influences, interpreted by another group of actors or by real professional performers, like a magician, a psychic, a model, a hypnotist, a singer, a psycho-dramaturge.

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

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

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Brits love a road trip supporting a British fighter.

The only way to keep the British economy secure is to leave the E.U.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

I think there's something amazing about British soul.

I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or not. They get hired for the way they look at a really young age. You also have your fingers crossed around kid actors... because the lessons they learn on set aren't always the best. You can really get whatever you want.

I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Actors and entertainers can become parliamentarians, so why should parliamentarians not become entertainers and actors?

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.