Quotes of: English-people Keyword

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.

Elizabeth McGovern

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

Rocco DiSpirito

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

William Wiley

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Gloria Gaither

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

Matthew Rhys

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

Natalie Dormer

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Nicholas Stoller

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Martin Jacques

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

Daniel Craig

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Anushka Sharma

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

Mario Testino

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

Bong Joon-ho

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

Edward Short

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

Diana Nyad

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

Grace Jones

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Garrison Keillor

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Geoffrey Rush