New York Quotes
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.
Rachel Hunter
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I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.
Samira Wiley
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Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
A. E. Hotchner
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
Ursula Burns
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I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
Aziz Ansari
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
Bob Wise
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We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
Carl Paladino
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New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.
Rachel
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I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
Gabriel Byrne
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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
A. J. Liebling
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
Rachel McAdams
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
Ernest Hemingway
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Edmund White
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
R. J. Cutler
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
Andrew Cuomo
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
Alan Rickman
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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
Carl Hiaasen
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
Paloma Elsesser