“I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.” ChildrenBeautifulParentCitiesTeachStreetsLondonThrowingDisgustingBeautiful City Author:Britt Ekland
“My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.” WayTryingYearsSchoolSpeakNaturalImagineCollegeDramaFinalsFinishedLondonAccents Author:Jennifer Ehle
“I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.” CountryAwarenessTelevisionPressesLondonCreepsBeing Famous Author:Karen Gillan
“I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.” ChildrenUsedGrowing UpGrowingTroubleLondonAccentsReally Mean Author:Christopher Guest
“My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.” New YorkOfficeMovedLondonBackgroundsAdvertisingAgencyAds Author:Cindy Gallop
“I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.” WorldWayDifferentRoomsCrazyStudiosConnectedLondonParisDifferent WaysDifferent PlaceLaptopsPlugsIbiza Author:David Guetta
“Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.” WorldChildrenSchoolYoungMotherArtistFatherBornPhotographyTrainingVariousBritishLondonEducatedGermanyFormalBerlinYoung ChildrenDiplomats Author:Fay Godwin
“This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.” LooksRunningWantedChallengesWonderfulFieldsBeatsLondonRunners Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.” IfsGivingProblemRunningCoursesNiceWork OutLondonRoutes Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.” PeopleInterestActingHeardEnglandResponsibleBritishLondonRussiaShockAlliesSovietSoviet Russia Author:John Amery
“I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.” PlayMomentsLondonConcertsGigsPizza Author:Mose Allison
“London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.” BookCharacterImaginationLondonLandscapeMy Imagination Author:Peter Ackroyd
“In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.” HappensSpiritBornLondonMilesFortnightSpirit Of Place Author:Peter Ackroyd
“London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.” BookLightSilenceSmellLondonImpressionDescriptionSensationsChaptersGalleryLabyrinthComplementThematic Author:Peter Ackroyd
“Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.” YearsKindHas BeensHappensAgeMiddleTraditionLondonViolentMiddle AgesTextureRioting Author:Peter Ackroyd
“London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.” PeopleRaceCitiesComfortableIncrediblesLondon Author:Sade Adu
“Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.” LooksCitiesProudLondonParisFilthyResidentsTokyo Author:Tadao Ando
“My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.” LastsViewsAirSkyHusbandEnglandHotLondonBelovedCanadaGrandmotherMeant To BeMy GrandmotherFlewBasketsBalloonsVictorianWere Meant To BeHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Alan Bradley
“The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.” FirstsFeelingsProblemBigsHoursNew YorkFirst TimeChaosLondonClockHotelInsignificantSmall PartsCab Author:America Ferrera
“Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.” LittlesLastsNightEvilLateLondonLast NightWerewolfOld Lady Author:Warren Zevon
“It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.” EndsCountryScienceDifficultCitiesDifficultyLondonSuburbsCountrysideEnablingRailwayLondoners Author:Anthony Trollope
“I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsMovingSoundBusinessCitiesWestFinancialFinishedEastLondonFinanceCentreAsiaCity Of London Author:Jim Rogers
“London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.” LondonFavouriteFavourite Places Author:Phife Dawg
“I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.” NiceLondonRestaurantsGood FoodJapanese Food Author:Isla Fisher
“I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.” MadeAgeJobsFeltTelevisionTerribleBritishLondonMessLos AngelesEmbarrassedAuditionsIntimidatedBritish Television Author:Michael Fassbender
“You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!” ChildrenBodySidesLondonYour BodyRaising Children Author:Matthew William Goode
“My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.” LittlesPlaySchoolMotherStuffLondonSchool Plays Author:Lauren Graham
“I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.” DifferentWaitingFootballInvolvedExcitedLondonBritainOlympicsBeing Played Author:Ryan Giggs
“If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.” IfsWantHas BeensLondonNot Interested Author:Dave Hickey
“I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldRealHomeJobsInterestingLonelyMeetingsLondonReal LifeAround The WorldPlentyGet BackFrightenedTake MeScareLonely Places Author:Shirley Henderson
“Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.” WellsReasonPlayStoriesMotherReadingHalfAudienceKingsSpeechLateTheaterLondonTinyInvitedFringeAustralianTokens Author:Tom Hooper
“I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.” PeopleCarefulLondonCodePolite Author:Tom Hooper
“I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.” IfsThinkingGivingI CanCitiesWiseMinutesEasierMy FriendsPreparedLondonFamily And FriendsTubes Author:Jeremy Irvine
“It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.” HardCultureCitiesOffersMarkLondon Author:Toby Jones
“Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.” WellsCharacterHelpingFeltSoundVoiceInterestingChildhoodLondonRhythmControlledPaceVery InterestingAdoptingHitchcock Author:Toby Jones
“Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.” MenFirstsEndsMotherGrewDadGrew UpUnderstoodEastLondonFunny Men Author:Patsy Kensit
“I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.” ThinkingNeedsTryingBookActionNightNamesLostFunBoysLaughingDangerHumourLondonGenreWerewolfFrightLost Boys Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.” AsksLondonAsk MeHallsConcertsRoyalEric Author:Carole King
“The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.” LiteratureDifferencesChurchStyleBuildingLondonPeterBerlinResemblanceSt Peter Book:Travels in England in 1782 Source: Travels in England in 1782
“Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.” IfsHomeFightingMiddleEastLondonTerroristMiddle EastRemindersBombingStarks Author:Kenny Marchant