Quotes About Culture

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.

I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York.

I've taken pictures in at least 14 countries, and nowhere have people told me 'no' more than New York City.

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There's always some kind of drama playing out.

New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

New York's definitely got my heart.

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it's Seattle.