All Quotes

London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.
‐‐ Jason Statham

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
‐‐ David Bailey

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
‐‐ Peter York

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
‐‐ Alexa Chung

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
‐‐ G-Eazy

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.
‐‐ Hussein Chalayan

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and ownership and pride, and it's just palpable. It's a very different feel from an L.A. premiere. It's nice to be a part of something that's so positive.
‐‐ Michael Goldenberg

London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.
‐‐ Rory MacLean

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
‐‐ Alan Moore

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
‐‐ David Attenborough

London has such an unbelievable respect for theater, where L.A. does not. You go to a play here, and the dude next to you is sleeping. In London, if you're not in your seat when it starts, they lock the door. In Los Angeles, you can stroll into school late with a cup of coffee. In London, you get your butt to class on time.
‐‐ Devin Kelley

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had a thought to be able to play here because my English was not very good. So being given the opportunity to come work here was like a gift.
‐‐ Elena Roger

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
‐‐ John Legend

London is a modern Babylon.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

London is a roost for every bird.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

London is a very energising place to be.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.
‐‐ Luke Treadaway

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
‐‐ Lapo Elkann

London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.
‐‐ Alek Wek

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.
‐‐ Graham Swift

London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

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

London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I go back to the countryside to visit my mother, I get out of the car, and suddenly there's great wafts of fresh air.
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.
‐‐ Phife Dawg

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
‐‐ Don Johnson

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

London is the clearing-house of the world.
‐‐ Joseph Chamberlain

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
‐‐ Lapo Elkann

London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.
‐‐ Helmut Sohmen

London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.
‐‐ JJ Feild