A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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.
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience.
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too.
I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.
