New York Quotes

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

Any time there's a coaching change, that's something that's pretty significant, and especially for the New York Giants, who have had the same coach for a long period of time. But we embrace it.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

New York is my favorite city.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

What the hell is wrong with him now?

I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

Never Sell Yourself Short.

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)