#british

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. ↗

— Eileen Atkins

#american #american accent #around #bad #british

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#because #british #christian #discrimination #evangelical

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

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? ↗

— Robert Plant

#british #i #know #ostensibly #really

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#approach #british #continental #directors #opposed

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#am #british #caricature #i #i am

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#am #army #beating #boxer #boxing

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#british #fact #gap #good #i

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#british #british actors #character #i #i think