If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. – Arthur Eddington
It was Nick Willing’s intention to make ‘Hatter’ as sarcastically British funny as he could. – Andrew-Lee Potts
A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. – Adam Lambert
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. – Brian Cox
Californians don’t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. – Alex Kingston
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it. – Boris Johnson
In ‘The Hobbit,’ there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. – Aidan Turner
You don’t expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. – Antony Sher
In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on. – Alan Furst
I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern. – Alfred Molina
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-’70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap. – Adam Schlesinger
In America, you’re just an American. You’re accepted. It doesn’t matter that you’re of whatever race. If anything, I’m British, and that’s it. So let’s just get on with it, really. – Benedict Wong
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. – Barack Obama
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair. – Andy Gibb
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well. – Andrea Bocelli
The United States can tell you all about what’s wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians. – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. – Conrad Black
I’m a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love ‘The Office’ – I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version. – Brad Paisley
I’m very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they’re one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal. – Brian Posehn
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too. – Arthur Potts Dawson
We are together with the British and Americans because one should fight terror. But we are not going to pay the price for it by endangering Israel and its citizens. – Ariel Sharon
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port. – Alistair Horne
When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I’ve been doing that ever since. – Alfred Enoch
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia. – Bob Feller
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved. – Christopher Hitchens
I’ve always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children’s-book illustration scene, because I don’t work in line and wash. – Anthony Browne
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. – Benedict Wong