Quotes About New York

New York - to me, it's the greatest city in the world, and it's got the most genuine people.

I love getting dressed in New York - I feel so much more confident wearing things that are a little bit crazy.

I'm a New York Giant, playing football. I've been wanting to do this since I was a little kid, to play in the NFL.

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.

Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York.

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

I wanted to go to NYU because I thought that was my best path to glory. I figured it was safer to move into the acting world in New York while I was living in a dorm.

I'm in New York a lot. And every time I'm in New York, I'm out every night - it's a bit much. After a week, I'm ready to go home.

I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'

Both my parents had never been to New York, so when they got to go out with me for 'Good Morning America,' they were so happy.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

It was a really good relationship with the fans in New York - you can ask them. But I felt they were cheering for everybody, not just me.

Kahlo's letters from New York in the 1930s complement her visual critique: I don't like high society here at all and I feel . . . indignation at all these moneybags around here, as I've seen thousands of people in the most terrible poverty, without anything to eat or anywhere to sleep, it's what has struck me most here, it's frightful to see the rich throwing parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.16

Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They drive like comic book characters.

In New York especially, I always want to wear a nice overcoat to get through the winter: you can wear them so many times, and they make every outfit better.

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

One great thing about going to a fashion event in the morning, especially in February in New York, is that the other attendees are dressed less like models themselves. A winter coat, it turns out, is a great equalizer.