Accents Quote by Stephen Daldry

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to…

— Stephen Daldry

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a…

— Michael Caine

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

— Anthony Burgess

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

— Francesca Annis

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans:…

— Gore Vidal

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in…

— Dan Fox

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

— George Orwell

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

— Jilly Cooper

I think one of the main differences between being an English actor and being an American actor is that we have things like the…

— Rafe Spall

I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That…

— Alan Cumming