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“You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.”

Firsts Looks Age Young Realizing Boys Streets First Time London Old Age Birthday Policemen 60th Birthday My Boys Witty Birthday

Author:Seymour Hicks

“Working was a new thing; waking up early in the morning and going to bed late at night... But I’ve met a lot of nice people, I've been to New York, London, Paris. I like traveling. Now I cannot imagine my life without modeling.”

People Night Morning Nice Imagine New York Mets Bed Late Wake Up London Paris Waking New Things Modeling Up Early Nice People Waking Up Early

Author:Barbara Palvin

“In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.”

Mind States Months London State Of Mind November

Author:Antal Szerb

“When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!”

Mean New York London Coaches Scotland Rio Glasgow Rio De Janeiro

Author:Gerard Butler

“I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.”

Seems Journey Car Tears Travel Bottom Speed London Bumps Speed Bumps

Author:Alan Davies

“The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London”

London Coffee Shops Best Place Coffee Shop

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise—one of my favorites.”

Dream Funny Cold London Ridiculous Dumb Salad

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.”

Thinking Sexy London

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.”

“I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life”

England London Countryside Time Of My Life

Author:Debra Messing

“There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.”

Littles Soul Ends Actors Bits Stage Little Bit Tradition West Deeper London Theatre Your Soul Performing West End

Author:Christian Slater

“Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.”

Children Mom Dad My Family My Mom London Far Away Mom And Dad Only Child

Author:Tom Hardy

“Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.”

Eye Girl Black Audience London Cherries

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.”

People Looks Ready Picks Argument London

Author:Colin Firth

“I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.”

Thinking New York London Los Angeles I Love New York

Author:Carey Mulligan

“The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.”

People Want Needs Said I Can Whole Running Wanted Jobs Film Brain Watches Trump Hollywood Pressure Actresses Be Good London Pounds Seagull Sure Thing Appendix

Author:Carey Mulligan

“The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.”

Stories Return Direct Originals Productions London Comeback Delayed Origin Of Life

Author:Tobe Hooper

“I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.”

People Firsts Next Left Acting Class London Planes Apartment Next Day Great People Suitcases Acting Classes Very Inspirational

Author:Jane Leeves

“I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life”

Years Two Thirds Eight British London

Author:Devon Aoki

“I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.”

Guy Culture Growing Up Growing India British London Asian

Author:Dev Patel

“I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.”

Used London Cycles Bike Biking

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.”

Years Film Moving Huge Periods Tired London Awful Los Angeles Contemplating Uninspired

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“I’d like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. I’d like to fight bullies, actually. I’d like to stand up to the bullies in this world. I was actually mugged once in London, and I was completely defenseless. They came at me with a… I was held at knifepoint. And I felt so angry that I let them do it and I think I’d like to go back and say ‘Look, it’s okay’, and if they tried to stab me, I could just say ‘You can stop that now’.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Looks War Fighting Felt This World Okay Angry London Bully Defenseless

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONVENTIONALLY ROMANTIC YOU'VE GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY: A BEAUTIFUL DINNER SOMEWHERE LOVELY, WITH BOAT-LOADS OF FLOWERS, CHOCOLATES AND CHAMPAGNE. BUT IT MIGHT ALSO BE NICE TO WRAP UP WARM AND SIT ON A ROOF SOMEWHERE, WITH A CUP OF HOT SOUP AND YOUR GIRL, WATCH THE PLANES COME IN OVER LONDON AND LISTEN TO THE NIGHT.”

Ifs Thinking Way Might Beautiful Night Girl Watches Nice Flower Hot Warm Dinner London Lovely Boat Cups Planes Chocolate Load Roof Being Nice Soup Wraps Champagne Hot Soup

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.”

Way Long Hours Party Drink Waste Six Sitting London Wasting Time Cigarette Long Way Long Way To Go

Author:Albert Finney

“I was sitting in a caf in London with my husband and baby daughter when my phone rang with the news! I feel so incredibly lucky and honored to be nominated, and so grateful to be part of the family that is The Killing.”

Feels Baby Lucky Husband News Daughter Sitting Grateful Killing Phones London My Husband Honored So Grateful

Author:Mireille Enos

“Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.”

Trying Red Dresses London Fats Boards Passengers

Author:Joan Rivers

“I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.”

Feels Culture Comfortable London

Author:Sandra Oh

“The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.”

Different Interesting Cities Sexy London Snakes Funny Things Thames

Author:Mel Smith

“I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.”

Mean I Can Shows Home Film Acting London Location

Author:Saffron Burrows

“I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light”

Stills Matter Light Used London Hills Noticing Pavement Beverly Hills

Author:Julie Christie

“I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.”

I Can Pages London Edits Spills Brazil

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.”

People Men World Amount Down And Mad Clubs Insight Warm London Hats Great Experiences Shaving Grooming Transvestites Hats Off Mad World

Author:Cillian Murphy

“There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.”

Littles London Pockets Bubbles Amber Old Time

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.”

Ifs World Honest Died London Honestly Snowboarding

Author:Jeremy London

“I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.”

Feels Different Real White New York Walking London Architecture Segregation Unattractive Cinematic Uptown

Author:Imogen Poots

“After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.”

Years Wanted Change New York Productions London

Author:Alex Winter

“I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that”

Years Six London Theatre

Author:Imelda Staunton

“I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.”

Want Looks Home Crazy Come Up London

Author:Alison Krauss

“I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.”

Looks Different School Streets Style High School London Timeless

Author:Stevie Nicks

“The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.”

Looks Minutes Hot Winter Heavy London Weather Spectacular Chilly Bahamas Winter Weather

Author:Kathleen Quinlan

“I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.”

Thinking Said Home Wanted British London Acknowledge Heritage Formation

Author:Jamie Bamber

“The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.”

People Problem Political Fighting Next Community Election West London Candidates Labour Our Community General Elections Mps

Author:Llyr Huws Gruffydd

“As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?”

Children Kids Night Fans Huge Performances Actresses London Theatre Favourite Pizza Snacks Tricycles

Author:Arabella Weir

“Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.”

Two Listening Summer Window Wide London Yesterday Sat Fancy Glorious Sunshine Discourse Amorous

Author:Marie Corelli

“In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.”

Thinking Wells Important States London Well Being Comment

Author:Steven Berkoff

“If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.”

Ifs Writing Real Past Streets Walking London Passing Passings Subconscious Past And Present Brushing

Book:Loot

Source: Loot

“Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.”

World Firsts Lost Black Walks Property London Paris Yards Nobel Anonymity Frankfurt

Author:Wole Soyinka

“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”

Looks Women Husband London Unhappy Happy Woman

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

“[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.”

Giving Humans Long Character Interesting Emotion Attitude Dog Exercise British London Sentimental Foreigners Amusing

Author:V. S. Pritchett