Quotes About British

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

I'm very British at heart. When I come to England, I say I'm coming home, and then it's funny: when I leave England to go back to L.A., I also say I'm going back home.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

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

American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.

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

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I'm in a very different situation so I don't compare myself to his stats.

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

Children of Men' reinforces what few would doubt, but which British cinema would seldom lead you to suspect: the British landscape bristles with cinematic potential.

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.

A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

I feel like British designers are having a real moment; there's a lot of freedom to be different, and I think that that's what so unique. There's no expectation of what you're going to see at London Fashion Week, and I think that's why you get such a mixed bag of sweets.

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should celebrate them.

A cheaper British currency could be a crisis if its swift move provoked a broader financial crisis, which it has not, or if it triggered massive inflation. For now, cheaper sterling will hurt some British households and enterprises while being a boon for others.

I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle.

British swimming have created that environment where it is very friendly. And I think it is part of our sporting culture. Rainy Sunday, you go to the local swimming pool.