London Quotes - Page 32

• London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

  Phife Dawg

  Favourite, Favourite Places

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• I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

  Isla Fisher

  Nice, Good Food, Restaurants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, Television

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

  Matthew William Goode

  Children, Body, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

  Lauren Graham

  Mother, School, Play

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• I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Waiting, Different

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• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

  Dave Hickey

  Want, Not Interested, Has Beens

  "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  Shirley Henderson

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

  Tom Hooper

  People, Polite, Careful

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Wise, Thinking, Cities

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• I think New York is more stylish than London.

  Max Irons

  New York, Thinking, Stylish

  "Max Irons, Model/Actor, Thinks New York Is More Fashionable Than London" by Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  Ma Jian

  Luxury, Cruise

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• It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

  Toby Jones

  Cities, Culture, Mark

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mother, Dad, Men

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

  Carole King

  Eric, Royal, Concerts

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• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Differences, Style, Church

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

  Kenny Marchant

  Home, Fighting, East

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• Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

  Diego Luna

  Garden, Feelings, Lasts

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• It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

  Stella McCartney

  Country, Realistic, Beats

  "Lunch with Mariella: Stella McCartney" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Bags, World, Miami

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• I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

  David Naughton

  Art, New York, Careers

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• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  James Nasmyth

  Brother, Machines, Printing

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.161, BoD – Books on Demand

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