Quotes About British

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.

My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

The high street is not a retail thing: it's a social thing, part of the British lifestyle. And I say that as someone who started his life on Limassol high street in Cyprus.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

I think Britain's economy has done extremely well from having the influx of talented people from around the world and from having an influx of people from the rest of the European Union. It's both evidence of how strong the British economy was - that's what drew people in - but it's also part of what's making the British economy work.

Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and in your soul, growing up. King Arthur is alongside Robin Hood, as those great British folk tales, myths and icons.

I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'

Cât de oribil, fantastic, incredibil poate s? fie", spunea Chamberlain..., "c? trebuie s? s?p?m tranÈ™ee È™i s? prob?m m??ti de gaze aici din cauza unei certe dintr-o È›ar? îndep?rtat?, între oameni despre care nu È™tim nimic." Cehoslovacia era în mod clar mai departe ca India, Africa de Sud sau Australia pe harta mental? a poporului britanic...