They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they’re not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day. – Johnny Vegas
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
I’ve never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that’s where Ferraris are from. That’s about it. – John Ridley
For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household. – Jacqueline Bisset
I don’t get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. – Idris Elba
There’s this idea that it has to be made in London. But we’ve got everything up here, and if you’ve got comics who are gifted because of where they’re from, you shouldn’t drag them away from that natural resource. – Johnny Vegas
I was brought up in a flat in North London – virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles. – Jim Crace
I’ve spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It’s just not my home. – Johnny Vegas
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it’s different – even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up. – Imogen Poots
Playing Joanne in ‘London to Brighton’ was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it. – Georgia Groome
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they’re really New York films because they’re like travelogues. – Israel Horovitz
There’s all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it’s a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. – Irvine Welsh
I don’t miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive. – John Cleese
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I’ve got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it’s possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American. – John Oliver
I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London. – John Cleese
When I lived in London when I did ‘Wicked’ there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York. – Idina Menzel
A lot of new genres were being born at the time I started going out to clubs in South London, and I was part of an exciting movement that has now blown up around the world. – Jamie xx
In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin. – Jon Oringer
The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I’m a ballerina by trade; I’m a ballerina who sings by the way. – Jane Seymour
I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, ‘You should give it a go in London.’ – James Bay
A horseman’s head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon’s torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from. – Amal Clooney