#english

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#excited #i #more #movie #opportunity

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#around #babylon #bit #by the time #done

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#china #cup #drink #english #father

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#call #consciously #english #i #make

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#drink #english #gets #go #know

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#english-speaking #films #i #important #love

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#itself #lawrence #occasion #population #presents

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#blood #england #english #fascism #friends