"Once you`ve been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. What was really nice about the OBE is that it`s the first award where I didn`t have to make a speech and I didn`t have to sit there waiting to see if I`d won - I knew I was going to get it."
- Robbie ColtraneI received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn`t mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
- Joan CollinsI turned down the OBE because it`s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who`ve got it. It`s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.
- Ken Loach