New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I'm from Los Angeles. I grew up on the west side. I went to Pali High, Paul Revere, Country Canyon. — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder. — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? — Cass Elliot Copy Share Image
New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's… — Jessie Baylin Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings.… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I think the first time I realised 'Downton Abbey' was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York… — Susan Egan Copy Share Image
I get homesick for snow and for winter and for seasons and, really, for weather patterns. But L.A. has some of the… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens,… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If… — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it… — George Murray Copy Share Image
Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else? — El-P Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I lived most of my life in Texas, but I've settled down in Pittsburgh. My husband is from here. We met at… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
“I wish I could show you the little village where I was born. It's so lovely there...I used to think it too… — Mary Kelly Copy Share Image
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
I had every intention of leaving Los Angeles, moving to New York, and starting over - but life happened, as it always… — Stassi Schroeder Copy Share Image
'The Real Housewives of Miami' only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A. — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding. — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
