The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
Karel Reisz
CinemaBritishBeenDullConformist
The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a consequent destruction of livelihoods and communities.
Linda Colley
ImpactPositionCompeteBritish
Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.
Robert Kazinsky
NothingHardIndustryBritishSoap
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
Fergus Henderson
GoodFoodPeopleMeanBritishCook
I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
Lemmy
MilkBandFirstNextIronBritish
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
Ann Macbeth
BlindlyWhereBritishMerchantLeads
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Damian Lewis
PlayIronyComingBritishBackground
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
Kevin Brownlow
BetterCinemaSaidReactionBritish
I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.
John Rocha
GreatGroundOwnBritishShowYour
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
LiveI AmLondonWriteBritishAm
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
Steven Berkoff
LifeNatureBritishBluntPragmatic
I really appreciate the British part of my family.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
FamilyAppreciateBritishPart
Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
Trinny Woodall
WomenAgeKnowWantScreenBritish
I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.
Georgia May Jagger
GoodTeethBigBritishOld-Fashioned
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
Robert Carlyle
MeActorBritishKnowsMuchVery
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Frederick Forsyth
DictatorshipAlwaysWithoutBritish
I do feel a certain love from the British public.
Rod Stewart
LoveFeelBritishPublicCertain
I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.
Emma Roberts
StyleInspiredMossBritishLike
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.
Ross Kemp
GoodWeatherBetterPlaceBritish
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
David Miliband
MyselfPoliticsServeBritishSouth
I think I should be described as 'bi' - not bisexual, because I'm not - I'm gay - but 'binational' because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.
Miriam Margolyes
CakeEatingThinkGayBritishBeing
I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
PeopleMeHairThoughtTrueBritish
L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
Louis Theroux
PeopleBritishHereOppositeMany
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
Alan Furst
WhiteKindWriteBritishGetLike
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