New York Quotes

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

Having played in Boston will help me a ton moving to New York.

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.

According to the New York Daily News, Geraldo said he is now carrying a gun, and he will personally shoot Osama bin Laden if he finds him. If Osama also has a gun, this could work out okay.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

In New York everyone just kind of knows each other.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens.