Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

The British are so funny.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

We will never privatise the National Health Service.

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

British comedy fans go crazy.

Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.