New York City Quotes

"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

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

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker"

Spike Lee, Director

"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do"

Spike Lee, Director

"I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world"

Gabriel Macht, Actor

"With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis"

John Pomfret

"I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City"

Philip Morrison, Scientist

"I've been in New York City now for 22 years"

Julie Gold, Musician

"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"

Ray Conniff, Musician

"I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old"

Gregory Corso, Poet

"We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before"

Peter Bergman, Actor

"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan"

James Van Der Beek, Actor

"I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs"

Cleveland Abbe, Scientist

"I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"I just would like to spend more time in New York City"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

"I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics"

George Pataki, Politician

"I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City"

Bob Kane, Artist

"When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that"

John Guare, Playwright

"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive"

John Guare, Playwright

"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted"

John Guare, Playwright

"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner"

John Guare, Playwright

"I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes"

John Guare, Playwright

"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet"

John Guare, Playwright

"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York"

John Guare, Playwright

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