British Quote by Max Barry

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

— Michael Douglas

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

— Martin Freeman

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of…

— Marjane Satrapi

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

— Jamie Bamber

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

— Ben Hecht

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the…

— Dominic Purcell

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good…

— Orlando Bloom

The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate…

— Frank Spotnitz

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie…

— Jackie Chan

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

— Kevin Brownlow

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Why are we watching a foreign movie? You'd think if it was any good they would make an American version.

— Hank Hill