Michael Landes Quotes

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

The British are so funny.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

British comedy fans go crazy.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them.

I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.