New York Quotes

When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

Edd Byrnes
- Mind
- Movie
- Star
Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

Ice T
- Same
- New York
- Group

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

Jacki Weaver
- Done
- Never
- New York
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

Nancy McKeon
- Age
- Doing
- New York
After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

Patrick deWitt
- City
- New
- Year
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

Aaron Yoo
- People
- New York
- Subway
It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

iO Tillett Wright
- People
- Reality
- Rock
If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

Patrick Whitesell