Brooklyn Quotes · Page 8

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they…

— Don Lemon

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to…

— Mimi Sheraton

“His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk…

— Raymond Chandler

There are definitely die-hard fans. That's one thing about people from Brooklyn: they're very loyal, die-hard, believe in their team.

— Kemba Walker

Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.

— Peter Scolari

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in…

— David Plotz

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

— Andrew Dice Clay

“WE were on our way to Brooklyn to pick up an arm and see a man about a head.”

— Lisa Shearin

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the…

— Emanuel Celler

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense.…

— El-P

It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait…

— Cassandra Clare

I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's…

— Theophilus London

“Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of…

— Darynda Jones

You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star…

— Vanessa Ferlito

In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in…

— Daniel Boulud

If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can…

— Ishmael Reed

“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the…

— Jacob M. Appel

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was…

— William Forsythe

My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and…

— Anonymous

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like…

— Larry Charles

In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music].…

— Aaron Brookner

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the…

— Jonathan Lethem

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are…

— Ira Sachs

“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the…

— Lara Vapnyar

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

— Mickey Rooney

You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the…

— Gutzon Borglum

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid…

— Michael De Luca

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

— Ben Howard

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

— Erik Larson

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of…

— Brian Flores

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

— Anthony Bourdain

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small…

— Porter Robinson

Just playing in Brooklyn, playing in New York is such an amazing experience - it's something that can be so special.

— Brook Lopez

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

— Stephanie Beatriz

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

— Jessica Williams

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

— Mary Tyler Moore

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

— Hakeem Jeffries

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

— Donald Trump