Quotes About New York

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

Just playing in Brooklyn, playing in New York is such an amazing experience - it's something that can be so special.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!

I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

The first year I lived in New York, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite burger in New York.

New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back... and I'm hanging out with the Rolling Stones.

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

I'm originally from New York, and my style follows suit. Since I've lived in L.A., though, I feel like I've become a lot more casual.

The idea of going to New York for five days and kinda being paraded around by the NFL as they make money off your every step, and the whole purpose is just for publicity for me to stand there in a suit and go, 'Look at me everybody!'... That sounds horrible.

I understand the New York media is a lot more magnified than most markets, but I'm up for that challenge. I'd definitely be suitable, and I'd be primed for a market like that.

I came to New York with no money and just one suitcase. I had my family's emotional support, but they weren't able to help me financially.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

My favourite store? Seize Sur Vingt in New York. They make most of my suits, and they are really cool people.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.