I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British ...
George Banks: [singing] A British bank is run with precision. A British home requires nothing less! Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools! Without them: disorder, catastrophe! Anarchy! In short, you have a ghastly mess!
British MP: I'm sorry, Miss, it's orders. We can't go against the protocol. Anna Schmidt: I don't even know what protocol means. British MP: Neither do I, Miss.
When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, s...
[Barry is masquerading as a British lieutenant in Prussia after having defected from the British army] German Girl: It must be very danger for you, to be in the war. Redmond Barry: I'm an officer and I must do my duty.
The British are so funny.
Idi Amin: You see. You are a doctor and a philosopher. Yes, I do have a good life now. Please, please. Sit here. I come from a very poor family, I think you should know this. My father left me when I was a child. The British Army; became my home. The...
Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
Jim: [during an American airstrike] P-51! Cadillac of the sky!
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
