“I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.” ThinkingShouldDoneActorsSidesRolesHavensEnglandTheatreRevolutionaryRebelAdoreHelenDames Author:Charlotte Rampling
“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.” PeopleIfsLittlesYoungMotherActorsFatherStrongEnglandDeterminedSpokesVery StrongAccentsAustralianEnglishmenScots Author:George Ogilvie
“I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.” ThinkingKnowsStatesCharacterActorsStuffTerribleEnglandTeethCharacter Actors Author:Burn Gorman
“I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring.” JobsActorsSpaceHappenedEnglandNineHarry PotterPottersHiringInvadersSpace Invaders Author:Robert Pattinson
“A lot of British actors will look at America as 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.” FirstsLooksAmericaActorsOpportunityLandColorAmountEnglandBritishPoolSmall AmountsLand Of Opportunity Author:Aml Ameen
“Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.” BigsActorsGroupsEnglandLondonLooking For Work Author:Rebecca Eaton
“I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.” WritingEndsActorsTvsMarkEnglandTheaterSeriesHallsOscarsPlaywrightLead InTv SeriesInvigoratingHowards EndHamptons Author:Colin Callender
“What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.” GivingYearsUsedThreeActorsDifficultAudienceFiveEnglandSevenAgentsFive YearsThree YearsAuditions Author:Julian Fellowes
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.” IfsThinkingWayStillsDifferentMightWantedSchoolActorsTypeDramaLuckyTrainingEnglandTheaterHype Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.” ThinkingCountryActorsHarderEnglandStarvingSuperstar Author:Rebecca Eaton
“In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.” AmericaActorsEnglandCockneys Author:Michael Caine
“In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.” WorldStillsDiesActorsEuropeEngland Author:Christopher Walken
“There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.” SchoolYoungActorsWishGoneDramaEnglandComing OutYoung Actors Author:Ed Speleers
“Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.” LooksActorsFatherBitsComedySeeingBloodDadRight NowEnglandComicBelovedSean Author:Simon Pegg
“I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.” PlayActorsSpeakTermRolesNiceEnglandBackgroundsFranceGermanyInterviews Author:Richard Sammel
“I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s.” DoneActorsSawsWifeExcitingEngland1960sBerlinEnsembleBrecht Author:John Hurt
“An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.” PlaySchoolFacesActorsActingWonderfulEnglandCarefulSmokeYour FaceCigarettePropsPlaying Around Author:Melissa Leo
“Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.” LooksActorsSidesClassEnglandTypingPosh Author:Benedict Cumberbatch