Words matter. These are the best British Press Quotes from famous people such as Paul W. S. Anderson, Robert Trout, John Major, John le Carre, Gwyneth Paltrow, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I made my first film, ‘Shopping,’ the reviews were incredibly snooty. They said things like, ‘Jude Law is too pretty for the role,’ and that’s why I don’t respect the British press. That kind of small-minded thing doesn’t consider what people like.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
In the last 15 or 20 years, I’ve watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won’t sink. I don’t know who these people are but they’re little pigs.
In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it’s quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.
When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they’re not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they’re really deferential.
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, ‘Oh, if they’re still around in two years, I’ll see what they’re up to.’
I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair’s foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
I’m not going to make general comments about the British press.
I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.
Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
We’ve always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we’re too normal and incredibly honest.
