“ As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. Norman Wisdom Actor
“ My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler. John Oliver Comedian
“ Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India. Anurag Kashyap Film Director
“ It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. Ben Aaronovitch Author
“ I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist. C. L. R. James Journalist
“ I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels. Candice Accola Actress