Olivia Colman Quotes

Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

I love living in London.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

A million people a day go to work in this city and they drive themselves. I don't see why I'm any different.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.

I'm just another guy who likes his job and doesn't like his commute.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.