Top 33 British Television Quotes
#1. To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
RuPaul
#2. I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
Michael Fassbender
#3. I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
E.L. James
#4. It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned.
Martin Freeman
#5. I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.
Chris O'Dowd
#6. We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
Charles Dance
#7. And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
Rachel Griffiths
#8. I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#9. After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.
Justin Chadwick
#10. I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
Gordon Lightfoot
#11. Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch
#12. The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, What! Another talking head?
John Cleese
#13. Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?
Giles Smith
#14. She spent the entire day at the house, debating the issue with herself. First, she watched TV. British television seemed to consist mostly of makeover shows. Garden makeovers. Fashion makeovers. House makeovers. Everything relating to change. It seemed like a hint. Change something. Make a move. She
Maureen Johnson
#15. I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
Anushka Sharma
#16. The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#17. It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
Elmore Leonard
#18. Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.
Norman Wisdom
#19. It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Walter De La Mare
#20. You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.
Gilbert Gottfried
#21. I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
Joe Rogan
#22. The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
James Forrestal
#23. American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
Chris Hardwick
#24. 'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.
Sean Paul
#26. I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.
William Gibson
#27. The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B.W. Powe
#28. Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence and survival were at stake.
Stefan Zweig
#30. My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
Joni Mitchell
#31. The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.
David Suchet
#32. 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
#33. Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
Samuel Johnson
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