British Actor Quotes

This isn't science! It's more like black Magic.

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

J. Milton Hayes

Although he was an intelligent man, I don't think that he was a supreme intelligence. He had a sense of having missed a university education. He was working when he was 17. It may have been his choice because his father was not a poor man. I would not, to say the least, call him a frank man. He talked about a great many things and then would occasionally reveal little anecdotal aspects of his own life. He was not interested in our becoming buddies. He was avid for knowledge, which he hoped I possessed, and which I tried to give the impression I did. I don't have any notion whatever of being omniscient.

Frederic Raphael

I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Nathaniel Parker

I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

Anyone can do well … It's all out there waiting for you to take. But first you must reach out and get it. You must work for your riches. You cannot expect it to fall into your lap.

I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Thank goodness for Tesco. It keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

DUDLEY: And will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the earth?
PETER: No. It will not be quite as mighty as that. That is why we have come up on the mountain, you stupid nit. Up here we shall be safe—safe as houses.

A Consumer's Guide to Religion—The Best Buy—Church of England. It's a jolly friendly faith. If you are one, there's no onus to make everyone else join. In fact no one need ever know.

Robert Gillespie

I don't believe Bond is superman, a cardboard cut out or two-dimensional. He's got to be a human being. He's got to be identifiable, and that's what I'm trying to be... It's not a spoof, it's not light, it's not jokey.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Francis Beaumont

I'd like to tell you that I come from a long line of German aristocracy and that I'm very rich, but actually it's a very boring explanation. A man called Tommy Tutt married a lady called Jane Rhind, and suddenly I've got a very posh name. And then my parents called me Julian, and suddenly I sound like a prospective Tory MP for West London!

Julian Rhind-Tutt

I made a terrible social gaffe. I went to a Ken and Barbie party dressed as Klaus Barbie.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

A line has length, but no breadth. If you could see it, it wouldn't be a line.

If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, "You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting."

Next to a small war, there is nothing quite like a general election to stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood.