Chicago Quotes · Page 20

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand…

— BJ the Chicago Kid

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

— Cecily Strong

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

— Bill Dedman

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

— Lynn Margulis

My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.

— Clemantine Wamariya

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

— Claes Oldenburg

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

— Gary Cole

In Chicago, there weren't a lot of Mormons in the town growing up.

— Sophie Thatcher

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved…

— Kim Basinger

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…

— Jared Diamond

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was…

— Kanye West

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our…

— Tracy Letts

I went to a lot of Chicago Wolves games when I was growing up... They would come out of the tunnel, the…

— Hilary Knight

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that…

— Jane Byrne

'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and…

— Matt Passmore

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the…

— Joe Meno

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically…

— Steve Carell

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35…

— Jesse Jackson

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army…

— David L. Ulin

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take…

— Thurgood Marshall

Every action I take, I will ask myself - does this make better for younger Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit,…

— Donald Trump

Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you…

— Jim James

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview,…

— Patrick Stump

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

— Anonymous

I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.

— Brendan Hunt

I'm a huge Ron Rivera fan, I played for Ron for three years in Chicago.

— Brian Urlacher

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

— Dick Gregory

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold…

— Emily Robison

I'm playing a cop in Chicago. So I have to look beefier - like a guy who eats steak and potatoes.

— Jesse Lee Soffer

I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.

— KiKi Layne

I have nothing against Chicago, nothing against the coaches.

— Michael Carter-Williams

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

— Fred Willard

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

— Bill Hader

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

— Bill Murray

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my…

— Dave Martinez

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

— Jesse Spencer

I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a…

— Mandy Patinkin

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

— Jane Byrne

I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save…

— Patrick Beverley