Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wilkinson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Tom Wilkinson

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Boris Johnson

You are part of our Great British family.

Mick Fleetwood

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

Jack Straw

We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.

Karl Rove

Yes, look, there are some hurdles, regulatory hurdles, that this still needs to go through on the British side as well that are going to be concluded next week. There's no requirement that it close, you know, immediately after that.

Eli Wallach

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

Peter Hain

We have had a British police team out there investigating the situation with the Saudi authorities.

Gregory Bateson

The processes of perception are inaccessible; only the products are conscious and, of course, it is the products that are necessary.

Kelly Rowland

Could I see myself with a British boyfriend? Absolutely. The way they wear their pants is so cute. Guys don't do it in America. Their style is cute. I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

Ken Livingstone

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Kenneth Williams

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

Kenneth Williams

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

Katharine Whitehorn

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Liam Gallagher

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Tom Wilkinson

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

Thora Hird

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Norman Cook

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Norman Cook

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Adam Rickitt

I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent.

Adam Rickitt

I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.

Marianne Faithfull

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.