York Quotes

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.