York Quotes

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

I don't even like New York rappers.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan.

New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.