Quotes of: English Keyword

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Jackie Chan

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Edward Bond

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

Eric Cantona

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

Ben Elliot

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Bill Nye

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

Gyorgy Ligeti

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Gloria Swanson

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

Jemima West

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Chow Yun-Fat

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

James Fenton

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

Otto: I love robbing the English, they're so polite.

A Fish Called Wanda

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): You're an unusual cop. Lee: Well, you're an unusual killer.

The Killer

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Arrest me later! Fight now!

The Killer

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Stephen Moyer

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

John Deacon