Albert Finney Quotes

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.

I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war.

In 'Sisters of War,' I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.