Austerity Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Graeme Murphy

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It…

— Heston Blumenthal

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

— Jason Statham

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

— Tom Hooper

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic…

— Ash Sarkar

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.

— Andy Serkis

British period drama is always seen as kind of perfect and beautiful and lovely, but I don't think subcultures have been shone a light…

— Annabelle Wallis

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in…

— Philip French

Margaret Thatcher inherited the sick man of Europe in 1979 and transformed it into a powerhouse. When she left office, it was Britain redefined.…

— Brian Mulroney

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of…

— Tim Roth

“It is impossible now to estimate how much of the intellectual and physical energy of the world was wasted in military preparation and equipment,…

— H.G. Wells

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a…

— Paul Theroux