Quotes About England

When I was young and visited England with my auntie, as somebody who was football crazy, I simply had to come back with a shirt. I can't remember why, but I came back with an Arsenal shirt and my brother had a Manchester United one.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

I can do some vocals in England; I can come across to LA You can do various versions - replace this, replace that. You can use software that almost makes the record for you.

I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'

I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Whether Under-17 level, the 21s, or senior team, it's my dream to play for England as often as I can.

I have a wife and young baby, and having them with me in England will help me settle.

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

When you are putting on that England shirt there is pressure to perform, but if you have been around it from a younger age I think you become ready for it.

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

I'm a passionate player when I pull that England shirt on; it's a very special and proud moment for you.

There's a place in Dalston, in England, called LNCC, where you have to make an appointment in order to shop.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?

When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a very common thing.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

I have changed my behaviour on the pitch in England. Here referees talk to the players all the time. I think it is nice.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There

seen the moral of my own behavior very frequent in England since my return, where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common-sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.

Football is one of England's biggest crimes.