Dormitory Quote by Helen Mirren

I moved back home to Southend in 2015 for a quieter life.

— Jack Monroe

Me and the missus have come a long way since our first flat in Southend. When I first came to London I looked in…

— Lee Evans

When I was a lad, our holidays were always during Oldham wakes week when the cotton mills closed down and everyone decamped to the…

— Bernard Cribbins

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

— Philip Guedalla

When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed…

— Julie Burchill

London is a series of villages, really. I like that.

— David Linley

You know, Rochdale is a really nice place, but it's not the most interesting place on the planet.

— Lisa Stansfield

Where I'm from, Milwaukee in Wisconsin, reminds me a little bit of Leeds.

— Jesse Marsch

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

— Rebecca Loos

The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

— Natalie Massenet

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern,…

— Neil Gaiman

In Britain, there's kids who grew up in London and then kids who didn't. You become quite street wise. It's such a big city,…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes