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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.
The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.
There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out there doing that.
It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.
We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.
I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian.
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.
It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.