Culture Quote by Jonas Mekas

I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along.

— Viv Albertine

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

Before I got into television, I was working in New York. I interviewed a few people there, wrote a few articles for a fashion…

— Tess Daly

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so…

— Michael Emerson

Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world…

— John Lennon

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

— Betty White

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start…

— Laura Bell Bundy

My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

— Eugenio Derbez

I lived in my own world as a kid. I sang Whitney Houston songs to imagined crowds. While watching films, I'd pretend to be…

— Judi Love

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker.…

— Storm Saulter

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

— Andy Lau

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas