Quotes About London

I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.

I did work a lot in Scots theatre, but I was never really successful in Scottish film or TV until I went down to London - and I had to go to the U.S. to get my big break.

At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.

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

I remember feeling incredibly bored all the time, and I spent a lot of my time dreaming about what was going on in London, and fantasising about being there.

There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.

I remember after a year in London, I was at an MTV party and a friend saying to me that it was such a brave thing to do to come over to London by myself. I never thought it was a big deal. It was my dream. I am so independent. It is just ridiculous. I am too independent for my own good.

After Brazil, London is my favourite city. I love to live here.

London is an incredible city. The people are very nice. It's a happy city with good Brazilian restaurants.

London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.

I'm a London boy, born and bred, and I'll be there for as long as I can.

I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so good at that.

I love London and British women.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I moved to London at 16, I saw a man from a Dulux advert on the bus, and I asked for his autograph. I was so excited; you can imagine what I'm like now - I really need to control myself.

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.

I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.