New York Quotes

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine.

For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

I went to drama school at New York University.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.