Quotes About City

I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars.

Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

I go to Yosemite a lot. To get there, you fly from L.A. to Fresno and rent a car. So I know about Fresno. It looks like the entire city was built in 1946 in three months - all these low California ranch style homes. The whole city looks like that.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

In L.A., you have to drive; in New York, you can do it on foot. The variety, the potential, of people is in your face. Like any good creator, you want to steal everything.

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

I had been acting from a very young age and also performing with a dance troupe, the Kalakshetra Dance Troupe, from city to city. I needed a break. After marriage I took time off. That break lasted 24 years!

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

When I was just a young kid who grew up in the inner city of Cleveland, I used to catch the bus downtown to grab a dollar hot dog at Public Square.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

Atlanta is a very good scene for the type of music I'm making. The biggest radio stations are all trap or rap stations. All the clubs are just based around this music and just the southern sound, that's what I really love about the city.

The 'trap' sound is a sound from the city. We've always liked music with bass. We've always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We've always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.

We chose NYU because their arts program was great, and they're a prestigious institution, but really because you're in a city. You're involved in a completely different way of life. You didn't feel trapped within a campus or in a bubble.

Memphis is just like any other city. I'm pretty sure it's like the streets of Baltimore, with your hoods and traps.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

I have never sat in a Metro in Delhi and Mumbai, but one day I would love to travel in the metro in Lucknow.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you're surrounded by every day.

I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.