Quotes About London

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

It was something I always wanted to do, to own a restaurant, because I love food. But particularly when I first moved to London, because I was on my own - I was single, away from my family, so it seemed very important, to have a place where you could go to meet friends and eat.

L'Etoile, in Soho, is the best French restaurant in London.

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

I saw Alan Davies on a show from the London Palladium and he did a nice routine about having kids or whatever. I couldn't do that.

You only have to look at Manchester's Royal Exchange or Home to understand the huge energy outside London - there's enough talent around the country to have a Donmar and National in every city. It just comes down to money.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

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

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

I was brought up on a farm in Oxford but my parents always had a flat in London, and we'd go to pretty smart restaurants, so it's always seemed important to eat well.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.

Spandau wasn't just about the music; it was about the fashion that went with it too. We were part of the New Romantic movement that happened around the Blitz nightclub in London, and we thought the best way to sell the band to America was to take the whole package to New York.

I never thought 'Mein Hoon Na' will do so well in Pakistan. Whenever I meet Pakistanis in London or the U.S., they have so much love and affection for me because of 'Mein Hoon Na,' which was my most criticised film in India.

My favourite view is just up the road from my house where, if you look one way, you can see Alexandra Palace, and if you turn the other, you get a panoramic view of the whole of London, including the Gherkin and Canary Wharf.

The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.