I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
