Chicago Quotes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.