British Actors Quotes
Voices from British actors on craft, training, and career.
These quotes gather British actors describing how their stage training shapes their approach, and how it compares to their American counterparts.
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...
Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
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I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,'...
Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all this methody way of doing things.
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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...
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.
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.
Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
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'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and...
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
I have to audition for everything; there is no Mrs. Robbie Williams free pass, and because I'm working with British actors everyone is so polite - no one mentions Robbie.
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...
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.
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Several also reflect on the pull toward Los Angeles and what it meant to try television work there in earlier decades.
