Being back in New York is so exciting!

New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really -…

— Robert De Niro

Thing about New York is it is so exciting with so much to do.

— Ben Howland

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

— Johnny Carson

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

— Gena Rowlands

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the…

— Robert De Niro

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

— Alan Rickman

One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find…

— Mike Mills

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to…

— Sasha Roiz

New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on…

— Diplo

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee

New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

— Jason Whitlock

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Greta Gerwig

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,…

— Gillian Flynn

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner