New York Quotes

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

New York has always embraced me.

I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California and New York state.So I think we do have a path to victory.

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

You'll never see me in a true New York raincoat, although I own one. You'll never see me wear rainboots. I guess I'm just not a rain person.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.

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.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they're stomping on the floor yelling 'New York Knicks'—that's a great feeling.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.