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British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. -- Matthew Macfadyen
The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other. -- Douglas Booth
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' -- James Purefoy
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. -- Luke Evans
Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media. -- Gina Bellman
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. -- Norman Jewison
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap. -- Dominic West
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. -- Ivor Novello
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. -- Harry Lloyd
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. -- Kate Winslet
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre. -- Brenda Blethyn
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. -- Jamie Bamber
British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K. -- Jamie Bamber
I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern. -- Alfred Molina
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.' -- Jude Law
I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me. -- Noel Clarke
British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me. -- Megan Boone
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting. -- Ashley Madekwe
I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for. -- Richard C. Armitage
I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British. -- Arthur Penn
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day. -- Mike Nichols
Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place. -- Jim Sturgess
Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been building up my pension appearing in films like 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter,' but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in 'Game of Thrones' as the head of the House of Lannister. -- Charles Dance
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. -- Tracey Ullman
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same. -- Michael Caine
On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that. -- Jeremy Irvine
I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors. -- Michael Douglas
American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic. -- Max Irons
American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic." -- Max Irons
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre. -- Brenda Blethyn
Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to. -- Helen Mirren
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. -- Aidan Turner
To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films. -- Daniel Radcliffe

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