England quotes

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
Tom Hooper

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Log Cabin Girl: But James, I need you!
- James Bond: So does England!”
Sue Vanner - Log Cabin Girl
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“- Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
- Rosencrantz: What?
- Guildenstern: England.
- Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“We may be a small country, but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that.”
Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister

“- Cohessy: Sir, what use is Euclid when the Germans are bombing everything in sight?
- Teacher: What use is Euclid? Without Euclid, the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky and dart from cloud to cloud and bomb the bejesus - out of the English, who deserve it after what they did to the Irish for 800 years. Euclid is grace and beauty...” (continue) (continue reading)

“- Willingham: That's wonderful, Duncan. Who is he?
- Phipps: His name is Jones. Ralph Jones.
- Willingham: Is he everything we've hoped for?
- Phipps: He has his strengths and his weaknesses. You see, he's American.”

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
Richard Griffiths - Phipps

“- Bertie: They didn't want me as their king.
- FDR: I didn't know they voted for that in England.”
Samuel West - Bertie
Bill Murray - FDR

You know, my momma... she always told me, 'Us Southerners get our good manners from the British.' So I was thinkin', "Ain't that a pity? Y'all ain't keepin' none for yourself". Y'all ain't ever heard of knockin' before you enter?
Channing Tatum - Tequila

“All this fuss over what? Is it a hill, is it a mountain? Perhaps it wouldn't matter anywhere else, but this is Wales. The Egyptians built pyramids, the Greeks built temples, but we did none of that, because we had mountains. Yes, the Welsh were created by mountains: where the mountain starts, there starts Wales. If this isn't a mountain, well,...” (continue) (continue reading)
Jack Walters - Grandfather

“- Colonel Moon: How do you propose to kill me know? It's pathetic! You British still believe you have the right to police the world. But, you will not live to see the day, all Korea is ruled by the North.
- James Bond: Then you and I have something in common.”
Will Yun Lee - Colonel Moon
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“I can't stand to hear that man talk! Half the time I don't even know what he's saying. 'This is not the end; it is possibly the beginning of the end, and it is certainly the end of the beginning': do you know what that means? If you ask me, the British should spend more time bombing Germany and less time drinking tea!”

Brenda Blethyn - Auguste Rottgen-van Pels

“We're not blood-filled meat puppets. I come from a long line of plumbers that can fix a shower, but I can't. Well, Hugh doesn't shower anyway - he's British. It's not being critical, you're just a very under-bathed nation; everybody knows it.”
Ryan Reynolds - Rory Adams

Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say "anarchy in the UK". What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing.
Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“Because I'm a resident of England, Britannia taxes my Hollywood income as well. I bought a house at Regent's Park so I pay property taxes on that too. My agent gets 10 percent, incidentals account for another 10 percent and living expenses for 25 percent. So there's always a deficit. No wonder Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard don't...” (continue) (continue reading)
Merle Oberon

“It's shite being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.”
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Cooper Harris: Europe is like the size of the Eastwood Mall. We can walk to Berlin from there.
- Scott Thomas: Cooper, England's an island.
- Cooper Harris: OK, swim, whatever. We'll take it.”
Jacob Pitts - Cooper Harris
Scott Mechlowicz - Scott Thomas

“You'd never think it... needing rain so badly. Not in fucking England!”
Brendan Gleeson - Frank

“I don't care for the movie racket much in England, but in Hollywood it is much worse.”
Noel Pierce Coward

“To this end, I pledge you ships - ships worthy of our seamen - a mighty fleet, hewn out of the forests of England; a navy foremost in the world - not only in our time, but for generations to come.”
Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth

“Britain should be in the driving seat of Europe. In the driver's seat, or in the passenger seat. That's good, cuz then you can take a sleep.”
Eddie Izzard - Himself

“Heaven take my bones. England keep my soul?”
Peter O'Toole - Pantaloon

“Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?”
Steve Guttenberg

“England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Eddie Temple

“Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!”
Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax