British Entertainment Quotes

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.

I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

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

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

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.

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.