. . . the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language. . . those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
It is America that gave me so much in my life. It wasn't until I came to America that my life just exploded in so many ways. So for me, I think in a way, though I'm English, I've been living the American Dream and I'm eternally grateful to Americans for allowing me to do what I love doing the most.
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.
When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays. . . And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom. . .
If we sang in English, we would have global No. 1s, and no one would say anything.
When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.