Quotes About New York

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

It's a city that we have always liked. Who doesn't like New York? When you are here you do feel a bit more anonymous. Obviously, you still find people who recognize you, but it's nice to be able to go out and walk around and have it be a normal experience.

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

MSG is the world's greatest arena, and New York is so competitive.

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In New York, the city was in the grip of Titanic fever. Flags flew at half-staff, the Henry Harris theaters were dark, and even Macy's department store had closed out of respect for Isidor and Ida Straus. Police had been called in to control the crowds in front of the White Star office at 9 Broadway.

there was a generation in the U.K. who'd grown up reading DC comics from a bizarre perspective. In America, those comics were perceived without irony; in England, they were like postcards from another world. The idea of a place that looked like New York, the idea of fire hydrants and pizzerias, was just as strange to us as the idea that anyone would wear a cape and fly over them.

New York used to be the financial capital of the world. It's no longer even the financial capital of the U.S. For the moment, Washington is.

By the end of the 1990s, my relationship was ending with the mom of my son, Little Ice. So I just picked up and left everything I had in L.A. and transitioned to New York. I went from that big-ass house in Hollywood Hills and got a one-bedroom apartment with no furniture

on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.

That air of electric tension, of a great city on the edge of an abyss, is more noticeable than ever at the White Russian cabaret called, not inappropriately, "New York." You wouldn't know you were in China. An almond-eyed platinum-blonde has just finished wailing, with a Mott Street accent, "You're gonna lose your gal." ("Jane Brown's Body")

New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying. ("New York Blues")

Like many people who come to New York to live and then have to leave before they really want to, I spent the next three or four years with the vague feeling that there was a great party going on somewhere and I was not at it.

For more than three decades, at least thirteen people with known or alleged links to the Russian Mafia held the deeds to, lived in, or ran criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties.

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.

When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.