I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland. – Raymond Burr
Anyone that knows me knows what I’m about, and I’m very much a British actor, a European actor. – Robert Carlyle
I love ‘Skins’. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it. – Reece Thompson
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. – Rhys Ifans
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers – there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair. – Peter Mandelson
One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally – that’s why it’s a guilty pleasure. – Raza Jaffrey
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert. – Owen Paterson
Wayne McGregor’s ‘Dyad 1929’ is a good example of this capable British choreographer’s work. – Robert Gottlieb
Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It’s a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in. – Peter Milligan
We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone. – Richard Branson
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. – Ronald Blythe
I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit. – Robbie Williams
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. – Richard Flanagan
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally’s strategic independence from Europe. – Richard Perle
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. – Rachel Blanchard
We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it. – Richard Branson
I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. – Paddy Ashdown
I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. – Paul Bettany
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. – Robert Trout
