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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
I think there is racism at the heart of British policy and has been both in Labour and Conservative times.
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.
My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.
I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.
It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
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.
In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.
Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.