New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

I don’t shoot guns. I don’t know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do...

I’m not interested in being Don Quixote. I’m interested in running the City of New York.

I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

The band couldn’t have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

The jazz boom was goin’ on then so there was a lot happenin’ in New York at that time.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that...

I couldn’t be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

After I made my hit in ‘Salome,’ Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

When you look at the ‘New York Times,’ you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we’ve invaded.

I never set out to do this – getting to No. 1 in the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list wasn’t even a pipedream.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things...

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I’d be burying myself. But I was wrong.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I’m a little bit obsessed.

In New York, there are so many potholes, they’re like craters on the moon. That’s another traffic thing.

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you’re not allowed to watch TV.

I mean I’ve never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I was a club kid. I was on the cover of ‘New York’ magazine and discovered like that.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it’s great.

I want to own the New York Jets, that’s what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

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

I honestly if I get a vacation I’m gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that’s the one place I haven’t been for a very long time.

I’ve always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

My favorite musical? I don’t. It changes all the time. I’m just a diehard, I’m totally old school, like I’ll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the...

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later,...

I’ve always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

There’s a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat...

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you’re in New York, it’s terrible.

I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was ‘Kraft Dinner’ or pizza. When I moved to New York, that’s when I discovered...

I didn’t come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

In New York, everyone’s desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they’re more laid back about things like that.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and… it’s all about the people that you get exposed to.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.

I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

I’ve been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn’t really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job...

New York is the great stone desert.

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.