York Quotes

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.