York Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler