Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

Joel Edgerton

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Robert Duvall

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Alexis Korner

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

Adam Lambert

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

Terry Wogan

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Wayne Knight

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...

Naomi Wolf

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British Army deserters and...

Guns, Politics and Independence: Correspondence between General Washington and President Hancock - June 16, 1775-July 10, 1776

Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political community. Throughout British India, separate electorate...

India: An Illustrated History

[Russell comes back from his meeting with the senior soldiers, where they got mad about the tax cancellation, a soldier salutes and walks by... ] Capt. Russell: Is that the way a soldier behaves? You're SUPPOSED TO SALUTE when a superior officer pass...

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Gene Barry

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

Olivia Williams

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

Andy Serkis

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

Jeremy Irvine

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

John Krasinski

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.

Sophie Turner

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

The Actor and the Housewife