Britain Quote by Michael King

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

— Richard Flanagan

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of…

— Natasha Bedingfield

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity…

— Linda Colley

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and…

— Naomi Watts

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really…

— Andrew Niccol

I grew up in Australia so I've got aspects of both cultures. New Zealanders tend to be very persistent, you know? And Australians are…

— Russell Crowe

Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at…

— Edward Enninful

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though…

— Angela Bowie

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

— Grant Bowler

When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that…

— Nish Kumar

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

— Naomie Harris