New York Quotes
I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.
I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.
When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.
I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.
I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.
I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.
To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.
I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.
In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.
New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.
Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.
When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.
The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.
I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.
Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.
New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.
I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.
