New York Quotes
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I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
Samm Levine
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
JJ Feild
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I actually find it kind of lonely because you don't see your friends or family ever. I sort of fantasize about just hanging out in New York while I'm on tour.
Sam Endicott The Bravery
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Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York - Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing 'Blazing Saddles;' when he left New York he started doing stuff like 'Robin Hood Men In Tights' - he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge.
Artie Lange
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I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
Iris Apfel
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
Carl Andre
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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
Alan Rickman
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I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.
ASAP Rocky
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
Mahershala Ali
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New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde Thurston
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There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
Haley Joel Osment
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I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.
Jane Krakowski
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I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.
Edward Burns
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
Len Wein
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I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
Jemaine Clement
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New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
E. B. White
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I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.
AraabMuzik
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The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
Lorin Maazel
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
Nan Goldin
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I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout.
Alessandra Ambrosio
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When I moved to New York a year and a half ago, I feel like I really was able to access my sense of humor and personality through my work for maybe the first time. The city has a really nurturing, positive kind of reinforcement...for young artists. Nothing is considered weird. Nothing is frowned upon. It's sort of a free-for-all in terms of experimentation, and I think that's a really great environment for someone who wants to work in a multimedia modality.
Chloe Wise
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I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.
Ella Baker
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I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.
Karen Allen