It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.
'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
I’ll put the “Great” back into Great Britain
It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
I'm a British patriot. What matters is what is in Britain's national interest?
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
I've always been passionate about England.
I have a lot of fond memories of my life in England.
British people do not like being bossed around.
I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.
I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.
I can't wait to get over to the U.K. for my first time ever. I've always heard how amazing the fans are over there - looking forward to experiencing it for myself.
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.
I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.
Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.
