New York Quotes

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

New York is a lot more fun than L.A.

New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

Before Fringe I was in Dirty Sexy Money playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.