I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space.
I have the same mates I always had, I go to the same pub. I’ve got the same wife and kids and the same house. Nothing’s changed.
Go to The Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. It’s an old-fashioned pub, and from there, you can look out over the London skyline.
It’s tough and it should be tough – it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.
Everyone knows the feeling where you’re in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It’s awesome, you feel like you rock. That’s what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.
Actually, the reason I’m a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and bought a pub, which he turned into an Arsenal pub.
I love eating at my dad’s pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
I can tell there’s going to be a fight in a pub five minutes before anyone else.
The World Cup is a unique event. When you see a blue shirt in a bar or in a pub, you immediately think of Italy. Scoring for your nation was a wonderful experience.
There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, ‘All right, how are you?’
I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, ‘I’d like to have a jam.’ So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start.
Our partying was governed by licensing hours. When the pub or club shut, that would be it.
I watched all the games in the pub with my family. We used to go to a place called The Sirloin in Chingford. It was quite a good atmosphere in there.
My dad worked 12-hour shifts in the Kodak factory – I remember creeping about when he was on nights – but he was also lead singer in a band playing in British Legion and working men’s clubs. My earliest memories are of being sat at the back of a pub, falling asleep on the bench while my dad played.
A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.
I live in Sheffield. I got the train in this morning. I had a walk yesterday afternoon and went to the pub in the evening. My family is very important to me.
I love putting on a red lip. I don’t do it so much for events – somehow, I don’t seem to get it right – but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.
I learned English in a pub. I didn’t learn it in school.
At first, I didn’t focus that much on the Internet. I was more, ‘I’m going to write songs,’ and I’d have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don’t embrace it, you get left behind a bit.
Let me just say, I’ve seen a pub or two.
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
A pub can be a magical place.
I don’t want to be an old man in a pub singing about Margaret Thatcher.
I need to be looked after. I’m not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn’t grow up with it, and it’s not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.’
Every species has its pub.
I’ve always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there’s been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, ‘We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We’re proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don’t come drinking in my pub.’
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone’s funny all the time. Doon Mackichan’s my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti’s the funniest with a monkey.
I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
I like to go home early, that’s my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
I like going down the pub with my mates and horse racing. I don’t do anything that exciting.
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.
When you’re single, you’re not beholden to anyone, and you can shut down more easily. In the past, I had the idea that I’d live in a caravan with a dog near a pub with no responsibilities. But now, when bad things happen in the world, I feel responsible for them because they’re going to impact on my daughter.
After Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul’s.
I have to say I love Dempsey’s Brew Pub & Restaurant. It’s gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese.
I like to know a tiny bit about almost everything. I do like a pub quiz.
That’s how cricket should be broadcast. Ball-by-ball calling is important but you’ve got to be lighthearted like you’re down the pub with your mates.
I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.
I’m homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. That trip from Heathrow into London is worse than the flight over there. It’s just so grey, and I’m not a pub person, and the traffic in London gives me a heart attack. It’s not a comforting place, on any level, to me.
I’m reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don’t think has anything to do with fiction.
I prefer pub food to posh food.
We’re more pub and football guys rather than walking the red carpets.
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