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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.