#british

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#excited #i #play #quite #somebody

Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit. ↗

— VIZ

#dictionary #humor #swearing #humor

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#british #good #i #majority #picture

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#america #between #british #canada #choose

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.' ↗

— Jude Law

#british #british actors #cruise #done #few

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great. ↗

— Austin Mahone

#even #fans #great #intense #maybe

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. ↗

— John Mahoney

#america #anymore #because #british #did

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. ↗

— John Major

#british #british press #good #i #like

I love the British. ↗

— David Mamet

#i #i love #love