New York Quotes
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New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
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New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
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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.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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New York ladies all look immaculate.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
