Quotes About London

When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London seeing a lot of theater. That's where I saw the performance that made me want to act: Vanessa Redgrave doing 'A Touch of the Poet.'

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

Yes, I was born in London because my dad was closing out the West End version of Miss Saigon' there.

I went to LAMDA, which is a drama school in London, and we did a lot of combat there. I was quite good at all that.

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

Competing in London would be a dream come true.

In the mid-1970s I worked at Vauxhall Manor school, a girls comprehensive in south London.

There's a lot of concern that London is changing and artists are being forced to move to new areas.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

In London, you'll be walking around and, 'Oh, there's the ground.' Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that's good.

That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and papier-mache. But I kept seeing other replicas at other fairs in the '30s, so I developed a longing to see London.

Many people in London - and in the rest of Europe - view giant American technology companies, and Uber in particular, with intense suspicion and resentment.

I really like Benjamin from Sweden with 'Dance You Off,' and Equinox from Bulgaria with 'Bones' - and they were really great to interview at the London Eurovision Party.

I feel like British designers are having a real moment; there's a lot of freedom to be different, and I think that that's what so unique. There's no expectation of what you're going to see at London Fashion Week, and I think that's why you get such a mixed bag of sweets.