Best British Actors Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out there doing that.”

“There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.”

“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.”

“I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.”

“I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.”

“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.”

“Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.”

“The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.”

“I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.”

“Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.”

“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The fact of the matter is that everybody, all actors who are desiring a bigger career, more choice, are all going to America. And British actors are doing well in America for the most part because we've been trained very well. They don't really have the formal drama schools that we have.”

“British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'”

“A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.”

“American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.”

“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.'”

“British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.”