1066 London Quotes for You to Enjoy

I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did. Martin Campbell

Me You Director Money Job Earn Everyone Months Mad Jobs TV Tried London Know Go Cameraman Left Get Did Wants Then Worked Doubly England Even Basically

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. Martin Cruz Smith

Attitude You People Understanding City London Some Take Towards Come Contempt Call South Close American Might Multiply

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. Martin Evans

Day Mother First London Born Had Come House Bedroom Escape Front Where January Grandparents Near Bombing

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. Martin Scorsese

World Seen Corner Worse East Visited Charles Charles Dickens London Fact Toughest Points He Known Said How Dickens End Five Than In Fact Anything Street Street Corner

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. Mary Pilon

London style is individual. Mary Quant

Style London Individual

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. Mary Quant

Life Work Time Space London My Time Divide Open Had Open Space Feel Between Particularly Chelsea Still Same Sixties Which Social Mud Social Life Village Swinging

I showed my dad the first episode of 'Toast of London' the other night. He laughed a bit, but when it finished, he just turned to me and said, 'You're an idiot.' I loved that. Matt Berry

Me You Finished First Idiot Other Bit Laughed London He Said Just Loved Toast Turned Episode Dad Night

Closest to my heart is probably 'Toast of London' because I came up with the character, based on a bunch of people I worked with in the industry. And Channel 4 didn't mess with it. Head to screen, it was exactly as I wanted it. Matt Berry

Character Heart People Channel Exactly London Head Mess Industry Because Came Up Bunch Closest Screen Wanted Toast Worked Based

I heard London is nice, so maybe it is. But I've only been to the armpit of England. Matt Riddle

Nice London Only Been Heard Maybe England

My family home was a rented house in the East End of London. My parents could have bought it at one point, but they preferred to spend their money on holidays and theatre tickets. It was strange to see it handed on to someone else when my father passed away. Matthew Bourne

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I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub. Matthew Lewis

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The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane. Matthew Morrison

Crazy Animals Nothing Paparazzi Insane Kind London Over Like Here

London has a very specific kind of style; it's very different to Milan, Paris, and New York. It's nice having that personality that we haven't lost. It's the English quirky style that people like to see when they come to Fashion Week. Matthew Williamson

London Fashion Week has always been very special to me. Matthew Williamson

Fashion Me London Week Always Been Very Special

I think New York is more stylish than London. Max Irons

Think London More New Stylish Than York New York

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years. Maxine Peake

School Drama Drama School London Stayed Go Years Left North

He proposed, in London, in 2002. Megan Mullally

London Proposed He

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