York Quotes

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

New York has been a blessing for me and my family.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a road, but snow.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.