British Quotes - Page 8

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

The British have always made terrible parents.

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

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

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

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

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

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

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.