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I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

No place has delicatessen like New York.

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.