Chicago Quotes · Page 12

We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you.

— Bryan Hilferty

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Daniel Clowes

I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

— Joel Murray

“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.”

— Nelson Algren

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

— Bob Odenkirk

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

— Raquel Welch

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

— Sandra Cisneros

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I…

— Mandy Patinkin

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta…

— Barack Obama

I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown,…

— Emily Giffin

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

— Bryan Ferry

When I grew up it was Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls, the Lakers, the Boston Celtics, those were the teams you loved…

— Jared Dudley

I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in…

— Joe Mantello

I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history…

— David Eigenberg

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on…

— Dale T. Mortensen

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my…

— David Copperfield

There are so many talented actors in Chicago, I have to go see shows when I'm there. A lot of these actors,…

— Jacob Zachar

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity…

— John Green

“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached…

— Nelson Algren

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I…

— Bill Rancic

I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream…

— Keke Palmer

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

— Shanola Hampton

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

— Wang Jianlin

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

— Jane Byrne

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

— J. B. Pritzker

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

— Fred Armisen

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

— Jane Byrne

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

— Fred Eychaner

I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.

— Danny K. Davis

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

— H. L. Mencken

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

— Diablo Cody

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

— Jane Byrne

Apart from playing Billy Flynn in 'Chicago' in the West End, Ive not done much acting.

— Tony Hadley

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

— David Mamet

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

— Austan Goolsbee

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

— Bill Hader

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

— James Young