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I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? -- Robert Plant
To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life. -- Cecil Rhodes
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't. -- Richard Flanagan
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain. -- Seth Macfarlane
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. -- Bat For Lashes
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born. -- Mike Myers
I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. -- Steve Kanaly
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race. -- Joanna Lumley
I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. -- Naomie Harris
I grew up with British rock. -- Bryan Adams
I'm basically a homegrown American. -- Junior Seau
I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. -- Neil Gaiman
I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American. -- Steve Hockensmith
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. -- Michael Caine
The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language. -- George Bernard Shaw
The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud. -- Thomas Beecham
Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction ... to be British is to be fashionable. -- Russell Tovey
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. -- Maajid Nawaz
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. -- Bill Bryson
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. -- Oscar Wilde
The only thing separating Americans and Brits is a comman language. -- H.p. Mallory
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor. -- Nicholas Stoller
Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia. -- Adelaide Clemens
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton. -- George Iii
The British are coming. -- Paul Revere
Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world. -- Gurinder Chadha
My background is Scottish. -- Melissa George
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting. -- Stephan Pastis
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American. -- Leonard Slatkin
Americans assume all British people have at least one servant. -- Martin Freeman
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. -- Julius Caesar Scaliger
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police. -- Tony Greig
I'm an Englishman, after all, -- Michael Dobbs
When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since. -- Alfred Enoch
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. -- Winston Churchill
I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way. -- Sienna Miller
I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up. -- Scott Adsit
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal. -- Beck
I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though -- Colin Kazim-Richards
I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture. -- Dev Patel
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. -- Hugo Weaving
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. -- Tony Blair
You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm quite a fan of British designers. -- Tinie Tempah
I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style. -- Nicole Richie
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. -- E.m. Delafield
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. -- George Takei
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. -- Anne Stevenson
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere. -- Gabrielle Aplin
There's a certain Englishness about the English game -- Mike Parry
We are very like the English, - are, in fact, English under a different sky. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. -- Nick Park
So how would you define a Londoner, then?" Lady Penny asked curiously. "Someone who lives here. It's like the old definition of a cockney: someone who's born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner," he added with a grin, "is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside. -- Edward Rutherfurd
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. -- David Blunkett
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me. -- Mario Testino
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. -- E.m. Delafield
You can be many things if you are British and still belong. -- Robert Hillman
Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? -- Julian Fellowes
I love British bands. -- Taylor Momsen
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny. -- Zedd
realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I -- E.r. Braithwaite
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American. -- Alexander Mackendrick
English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! -- Dan Castellaneta
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red. -- Matthew Rhys
America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English. -- Lily Cole
I'm English. And I don't have tan skin or blond hair or green eyes. -- Sam Claflin
British!Deadpool: "No, it's no good. I can feel that an American's having a major battle. For some bizarre reason I feel utterly compelled to get involved. -- Rob Williams
He's British. He's addicted to waving his long stick around. He has a superb sweater collection. -- Brittainy C. Cherry
As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. -- David Sedaris
Irish as a Paddy's pig. -- Eugene O'neill
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. -- Robert Carlyle
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone. -- Suki Waterhouse
British?" I tried to explain. "We make jokes about uncomfortable topics to feel less awkward about them?" How Hard Can Love Be? chapter 22 -- Holly Bourne
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one. -- Sean Connery
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. -- Callan Mcauliffe
I like to feel comfortable. I love British brands, and I enjoy dressing in a way that makes me feel good. -- Suki Waterhouse
English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls. -- Bryan Maloney
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'. -- Emo Philips
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. -- Dennis Farina
I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots -- Thom Yorke
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish ... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British. -- Brenda Fricker
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty ... pretty British in our entertainment leads. -- Graeme Murphy
When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent. -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent. -- Matthew Rhys
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see. -- Karen Elson
I'm as American as apple pie. -- Paul Mooney
I'm just the last English twit, really. -- Colin Firth
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now. -- Tibor Fischer
I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it. -- Matthew Norman
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen. -- Danielle De Niese
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. -- Leonard Cohen
Said, and we laughed awkwardly, in the way British people do when they are experiencing great emotion. In -- Jojo Moyes
I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English. -- John Cleese
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents. -- Stephen Daldry
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain. -- Andrew Marr
My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English. -- George W. Bush
English people are so not asshats! I'm going to move there. William Blake was English. -- Jandy Nelson
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. -- Chris Abani
