Chicago Quotes

• I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Comedy
  • Chicago

• I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Chicago

• My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • She
  • American
  • Mother

• Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

  

  John Ensign
  • Doe
  • Miami
  • Hares

• I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • America
  • Chicago

• When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.

  

  James Belushi
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Pizza

• Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • World
  • Chicago
  • Going Out

• Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Real
  • Paris

• The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on 'Chicago Hope' playing a security guard. I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be cool.' But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called 'Marshall Law' with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man's 'Rush Hour.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Cool

• I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  

  George Barr McCutcheon
  • Men
  • Fashionable
  • Doorways

• Chicago is the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Country
  • City
  • Rap

• I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Business
  • Chicago

• My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.

  

  Jazmyn Simon
  • Job
  • Small
  • College

• I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Work
  • Great
  • Live

• What I didn't know at the time of my scholarship was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Should
  • Class
  • Clay

• In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Chicago

• If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • Money
  • Home

• What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Chicago

• New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • America
  • City
  • Chicago

• My wife and I lived in Chicago for two months, and we went to a lot of great restaurants.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Chicago

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