“- Sadie Ratliff: Isn't it exciting?
- Rose Ratliff: Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!”

Bette Midler - Sadie Shelton
Lily Tomlin - Rose Shelton

“- Giselle: Nobody has been very nice to me.
- Robert: Yeah, well, welcome to New York.
- Giselle: Thank you.”
Amy Adams - Giselle
Patrick Dempsey - Robert Philip

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.”
Robert De Niro

“The Cotton Club in Manhattan? Many times, man, I damn near lived in the Cotton Club. I tell you, the Cotton Club is all right. But it ain't got nothin' on The Boom Boom Room. If you ever go to New York, go to Ray's Boom Boom Room.”
Eddie Murphy - Rayford Gibson

“Fuck that, 'cause I'm from New York City, goddammit. Nobody take no cornbread from me. That goes for anyone of you motherfucking farmers who wanna start some shit. You fuck around with me, there's gonna be consequences and repercussions.”
Eddie Murphy - Rayford Gibson