Chicago Quotes

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.