London Life Quotes

Home is here in London and always has been.

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

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

I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

If I hadn't have fallen pregnant by my then-boyfriend, I would probably still be living in London doing the celebrity scene.

Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

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.

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

It's a bit of a cliche but throughout London, even in places like Notting Hill, you'll see utter luxury alongside council flats - it shows the tapestry of life and I adore that.

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.

I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.