Chicago Quotes

• I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Serious

• In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • Country
  • America
  • Nature

• What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Chicago

• If Chicago had been hit, I assure you New Yorkers would not have cared. What was stunning when New York was hit was how the rest of America rushed to New York's defense. New Yorkers would have been like, 'It's tough for them; now let's go back to our Calvin Klein fashion shows.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • America
  • Fashion
  • Rest

• 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

• I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Challenge
  • Years
  • Challenges

• 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

• First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Good
  • Chicago

• It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Good
  • Work
  • 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

• 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

• I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Chicago

• I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Country
  • City
  • Winter

• When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

  

  Ann-Margret
  • America
  • Mother
  • Chicago

• 'What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?' - Russell: 'Not much.'

  

  Bill Russell
  • Winning
  • Chicago

• 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

• I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Snow

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

  

  James Young Styx
  • Chicago

• Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Boxing
  • Charlie

• My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Real
  • Father
  • Chicago

• Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

  

  Alberto Giacometti
  • Art
  • Chicago
  • Collaboration

• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Kevin Dunn
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • People
  • City
  • Chicago

• In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Waiting

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