London Quotes

"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"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat"

Mike Pence, Politician

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

Jeremy London, Actor

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!"

David Blunkett, Politician

"I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave"

Delta Burke, Actress

"Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"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"

Colin Firth, Actor

"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive"

Colin Firth, Actor

"Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"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"

Alex Winter, Actor

"I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health"

Anne Perry, Novelist

"I'd never have written the big books in London"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"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.'"

Tom Hooper, Director

"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time"

Trevor Nunn, Director

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

Jonathan Demme, Director

"My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London"

Kenneth Robert Livingstone, Politician

"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail"

Phil Collins, Musician

"We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months"

Lacey Chabert, Actress

"An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it"

George Carey, Clergyman

"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

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

Mel Smith, Actor

"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"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me"

Julie Delpy, Actress

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London"

Charles Keating, Lawyer

"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school"

Patrick White, Author

"During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"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, Actor

"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents"

Jude Law, Actor

"In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice"

Doc Hastings, Politician

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

Alison Krauss, Musician

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

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

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