J A London Quotes

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

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

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.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

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.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

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

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

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

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise—one of my favorites.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.