My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
Tracey Ullman

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
Samuel P. Huntington

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
Eamon de Valera

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
James Callaghan

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.
Orlando Bloom

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
Lord Mountbatten

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
Steve Yzerman

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Franklin P. Jones

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Paul Harris

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
Queen Mary

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
Claire Forlani

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Kate Winslet

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
Rory Bremner

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
Graeme Murphy

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft