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"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"

David Friedman, American Actor

"I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes."

Trisha Goddard, English Entertainer

"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

Robert De Niro, American Actor

London, Now, Paris, Rome

"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."

Sadie Frost, English Actress

London, Parents

"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."

Mick Ralphs, English Musician

"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle."

Kylie Minogue, Australian Musician

London, Sun, Treasure

"I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

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

Ewan McGregor, Scottish Actor

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

Imelda Staunton, English Actress

London, Theatre, Years

"We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so."

Mark Knopfler, British Musician

London, Play, Theater

"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."

Virgil Thomson, American Composer

London, Paris, Wit

"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

"An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it."

George Carey, English Clergyman

London, Office, Tea

"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."

Jeremy London, American Actor

"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

Bette Midler, American Actress

"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."

Sebastian Coe, British Politician

London, May, Problems, Will

"I crammed my exams in London and did fine."

Rhona Mitra, British Actress

"I've always wanted to perform on the London stage."

Mimi Rogers, American Actress

"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

Ryan Reynolds, Canadian Actor

"Of course I've done musicals here in London."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

"I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

London, Theater, Years

"I was born in London, so going there is always a treat."

Roger Moore, English Actor

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

London, Oil, Painting

"The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it."

Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author

"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."

Elliott Carter, American Composer

"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security."

Otto Schily, German Public Servant

London, Nonsense, Security

"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

London, March, World

"We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months."

Lacey Chabert, American Actress

London, Months, Space

"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

London, Man, World

"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."

Don Johnson, American Actor

"I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics."

Rachel Weisz, British Actress

"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes."

Kathleen Quinlan, American Actress

London, Weather, Winter

"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

Norman Granz, American Musician

London, Play, Today, Years

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

Claire Forlani, English Actress

"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being."

Steven Berkoff, English Actor

"In London they don't like you if you're still alive."

Harvey Fierstein, American Actor

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