City Quote by Joe Morton

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would…

— Denis O'Hare

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or…

— John Mellencamp

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down…

— Rachel Kushner

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

— Willie Geist

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

— Famke Janssen

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

— Keren Ann

I came to New York to prove who I am.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

I was in New York for many years.

— Paula White

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

— Hal Holbrook

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for…

— Mitski

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

When I first got to the city, I had no money. I was living in Queens amongst boxes and lived in Harlem and didn't…

— Helene Yorke