British Quotes - Page 17

• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

  David Eagleman

  Literature, University, Undergraduate

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• The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Italian, Years

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Rain, Mean, Sunshine

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• Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

  Billy Joel

  Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia

  Song: We Didn't Start The Fire, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

  John Major

  Business, Giving, Debt

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• I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

  Martin Freeman

  Style, Looks, Jazz

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• I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, Television

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• British people are surprised that I'm British!

  David Harewood

  People

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• Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

  Daniel Hannan

  Trade Zone, People, Tunes

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• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Hannan

  Islands, Museums, Gold

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• If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

  Rebecca Hall

  Home, America, Tourists

  "Rebecca Hall is Transcontinental". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2012.

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

  Max Irons

  White, Teeth, Actors

  "Max Irons talks to Stephanie Rafanelli". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 6, 2011.

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• It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

  Graham Joyce

  Christian, Eels, Wings

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• I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kids, Two, Detectives

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• It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

  Mike Jackson

  Philosophy, Army, Goes On

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• The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

  Fran Kranz

  Real, Character, People

  "Fran Kranz Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  Hari Kunzru

  Rights, Trials, Records

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  John Mahoney

  Real, America, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Criticism, Done

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  Cynicism, Californians, Patronizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.

  Jon Lord

  Dog, Nice, Thinking

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• I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.

  Kevin McKidd

  Home, School, Kids

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

  Lord Mountbatten

  President, Computer

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• Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Doors

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