J A London Quotes

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

I did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

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

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

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

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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.

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

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

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

I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

I love London, I love the British people.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.