Quotes and phrases about New York

David Cross
David Cross
American stand-up comedian, actor, director and writer
Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.
Natalie Zea
Natalie Zea
American actress
What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they bring onto the show. They're so talented, in such a weird, quirky and ominous way. And it's great to be able to work with new faces, too.
Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Cepeda
American journalist, critic, film-maker, and autobiographer of Dominican descent
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
Natalia Kills
Natalia Kills
English singer, songwriter and actress
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
Victor Cruz
Victor Cruz
American football wide receiver
I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
Dhani Jones
Dhani Jones
American football linebacker
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor
I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike
British actress and narrator
It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
New York traffic can drive you crazy.
Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate
American feminist video artist, filmmaker, and photographer
A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.
Jay-Z
Jay-Z
American rapper, songwriter, record executive, entrepreneur, and media proprietor
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.
Curtis Granderson
Curtis Granderson
American former professional baseball outfielder
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans.
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
American actress and model
New York vintage is too expensive!
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker
I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Australian actor
In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill.
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
American actress
My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italian writer and journalist
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian model, activist, and businesswoman
In 1996, the possibility of going to New York came up. From then on, I started searching for opportunities on the international market and the plane became my home.
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman
I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor
In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.
Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike
British actress and narrator
I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Australian actor
I love New York ... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.
David Cross
David Cross
American stand-up comedian, actor, director and writer
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
American actress
If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian model, activist, and businesswoman
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.