New York City Quotes: Capturing the Essence of the Big Apple

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story"

"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City "

Spalding Gray, Actor

"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that"

Robert Caro, Writer

"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations"

Robert Caro, Writer

"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park"

Christo, Artist

"No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"I live not too far from it in New York City"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"The people really are what make New York City great"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City"

John Tesh, Musician

"Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"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"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution"

George Murray, Poet

"Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again"

Edward Koch, Politician

"I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

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