New York Quotes

There are a lot of good women in New York.

~ Drake

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

~ Hugo Black

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

~ Charlie Cox

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

~ Billy Crystal

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.

~ Matt Smith

There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

~ Zooey Deschanel

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

~ Max Von Essen

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

~ John Guare

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

~ Gordon Ramsay

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

~ Hillary Clinton

I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.

~ Monica Bellucci

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

~ Beverley Mitchell

I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.

~ Jeff Gordon

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

~ Lana Del Rey

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

~ George Pataki

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

~ Bear Bryant

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

~ Thierry Henry

New York is the great stone desert.

~ Israel Zangwill

I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.

~ Ving Rhames

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

~ Theodore Bikel

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

~ Jason Mitchell

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' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

~ Ethan Hawke

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.

~ Liam Hemsworth

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

~ John Travolta

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

~ Jamie Wyeth

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

~ Clemence Poesy

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

~ Paige Butcher

Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it's pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai - it's the same.

~ Priyanka Chopra

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

~ Margo Jefferson

There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

~ Eva Green

When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin's school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn't have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay.

~ Priyanka Chopra

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

~ Kim Raver

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

~ Carl Paladino

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

~ Carl Paladino

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

~ Serge Schmemann

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

~ Sasha Pieterse

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

~ Enrico Colantoni

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

~ Conor Oberst

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

~ Vera Farmiga

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

~ Adrian Tomine