York Quotes

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z".

Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.

You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.

In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

I like to think of myself as a child of the world. I really am based in New York but I find that even though I'm based there, I'm gone more often than not.

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]