London Quotes · Page 17

The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.

— Jimi Manuwa

That was one of the great moments for me, getting a knockout in front of my home crowd in London.

— Jimi Manuwa

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

— Masaba Gupta

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

— Rajeev Suri

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

— Morfydd Clark

Well if you've ever been into London - no-one looks at anyone, no-one says 'good morning.'

— Alison Hammond

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

— David Harewood

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

— Mel Smith

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go…

— John Boyega

There's parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It's exactly the same - the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.

— Gavin McInnes

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

— Ben Saunders

We had to learn that in London and in Rio that we just weren't enough at that point. Did we believe it…

— Jordan Larson

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of…

— David Nicholls

I was brought up on a farm in Oxford but my parents always had a flat in London, and we'd go to…

— Rick Stein

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled…

— Jaye Davidson

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

— Jude Law

I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in…

— Skepta

'Housefull' means a house full of masti, mazaa, vibrancy and energy, something that London stands for as well. Audiences have traditionally loved…

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried…

— Anna Maxwell Martin

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I…

— Ed Sheeran

There are only two people running [Donald trump and Hillary Clinton] - you have to pick one of two people, and it's…

— Ken Moelis

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we…

— Evelyn Glennie

Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what…

— Maureen Johnson

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in…

— Anthea Turner

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

— Eustache Deschamps

I am from Scotland and moved down to London when I was 21.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

— Anonymous

When I was 21, I went to London and lived there for eight years.

— Sia

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

— Charlie Cox

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

— Wolfgang Puck

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

— Oscar Wilde

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

— Lapo Elkann

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

— Miranda Richardson

“It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.”

— Víctor Hugo

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

— Ben Kingsley

London's a great place to make music but it definitely has its downsides.

— Lola Young

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

— Idris Elba

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

— Jonathan Demme

Nando's - boom! That's what I'm thinking of whenever I'm in London. I go there every time.

— Kaytranada

“Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.”

— Frances Hardinge