York Quotes · Page 116

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would…

— Raquel Zimmermann

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

— Kenneth Lonergan

I knew it was going to take a lot for me to leave my situation in Atlanta. We feel very good here.…

— Al Horford

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

— Eric Garcetti

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

— Dabney Coleman

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

— Fran Lebowitz

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's…

— Nas

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely…

— Billie Piper

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead'…

— Ethan Hawke

The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if…

— Larry King

“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to…

— Chris Kraus

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in…

— Richard Benjamin

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar…

— Stella Young

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New…

— Fran Lebowitz

I live in New York City. Since 1983, this is my home. It is my heart, it is my home, and it…

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,…

— Imogen Poots

Toronto really is my stomping grounds. That's where I came up in stand-up. It's my favourite city of all the cities I've…

— Robby Hoffman

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm…

— Tammy Blanchard

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else.…

— Brad Hall

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life…

— Aleksa Palladino

In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters,…

— Bill Dedman

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

— Monika Chiang

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

— Carmen Kass

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

— Erin O'Connor

Yes, 'Bonanza' has made me very comfortable. I have a big four-level contemporary house in West Los Angeles and a modest summer…

— Lorne Greene

If all you do is sit in a detailed car and you're going around New York City, your world will start to…

— Zohran Mamdani

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on…

— Meg White

“There is nothing like the roar of the crowd in the home building. It does not matter if it is 20,000 in…

— Jerrod Edson

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school…

— Chloe Zhao

Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky…

— Ricky Reed

The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave…

— Gavin Creel

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

— Richard Armitage

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

— John Catsimatidis

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever…

— Terry O'Quinn

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road…

— Mike Nesbitt

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just…

— Dave Keuning

“Kunal, what's the point of weighing the pros and cons if you only have one option? There's nothing to think about. Move…

— Kunal Nayyar

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

— Carey Mulligan

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

— Eliza Hittman