New york quotes

“New York sure has changed a lot since my day. They even moved the White House here.”

Keith Scott - Bullwinkle

“I’m a New York actor as I said and I always said I would never go to Hollywood.”
James Tolkan

“I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home.”
Željko Ivanek

“I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.”
Gabriel Macht

“In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.”
Michael Rapaport

“- Sam Burns: You're a very rude young woman. I know Douglas from the Rotary and I can't believe he'd want you treating customers so badly.
- Checkout Girl: I don't think I was treating her badly.
- Sam Burns: Then you must be from New York.”
John Lithgow - Sam Burns
Judy Dickerson - Checkout Girl

“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.”
Clark Gregg

They don't even want to call it "Hell's Kitchen" no more. Renamed it "Clinton".
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jackie Flannery

“What New York really is, is it's an island, with lots of people, lots of different people... I hope to maybe meet some guys, some Italian guys, and maybe watch some TV.”
Parker Posey - Libby Mae Brown

“New York is not the center of the god damn universe. Grant you, it's exciting, vibrant, stimulating, fabulous city; but, it is not Mecca. It just smells like it.”
Alan Alda - Bill Warren

“- Jim Braddock: You drove all the way out here to talk about the weather?
- Joe Gould: Maybe I was in the neighborhood! Did you ever think of that? A little fresh air!
- Jim Braddock: Hey Joe, this is Jersey.
- Joe Gould: Good point.”
Jim Braddock - Jim Braddock
Paul Giamatti - Joe Gould

“We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost.”

“This is the most exciting place in the world to live. There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“- Samantha Harper: You're down in New York consulting with Lou Gerstner or the head of GE telling them how to buy South American countries but on the weekends, you fly back up here to hang out with the cop, do cop things, maybe go to cop mixers...
- Katie Burke: I like the cop.
- Samantha Harper: Yeah, um, I can see that.”
Zooey Deschanel - Samantha Harper
Katie Holmes - Katie Burke

“- Alex: I'm swimming back to New York! I know my chances are slim, but I have to try!
- Gloria: Alex, you can't swim!
- Alex: I said my chances are slim!”
Ben Stiller - Alex
Jada Pinkett Smith - Gloria

“- Buddy: What's it like?
- Santa: Well, there are some things you should know. First off, you see gum on the street, leave it there. It isn't free candy.”

Will Ferrell - Buddy
Ed Asner - Santa

“New York. The Big, juicy Apple. The city that never sleeps with the same person two nights running. My favorite place in America, where Sex And The City isn't just a programme, it's a promise.”
Hugh Grant - Daniel Cleaver

“I can always tell when I'm in New York.”
Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel

“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

“- Buggin' Out: Why don't you go back to Massachusetts?
- Clifton: I was born in Brooklyn!”
Giancarlo Esposito - Buggin' Out
John Savage - Clifton

“- Tony Stark: You should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top 10 floors all R&D, you'd love it... it's candyland.
- Bruce Banner: Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke... Harlem.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner

“New York is a wonderful town. Everybody dreams about going there, but we're luckier than lots of families because we're really going. Wait till you see the nice new home we're going to have, and the loads and loads of new friends we're going to make.”

Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“- Carrie Bradshaw: New York Magazine says Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.
- Miranda Hobbes: Yes, but whoever wrote that lives in Brooklyn.”
Sarah Jessica Parker - Carrie Bradshaw
Cynthia Nixon - Miranda Hobbes

“Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.”
David Margulies - The Mayor of NY

“Great, great subway. Terrific! I mean, New York is a shithouse, but this is great.”
George Gaynes - Eric Lassard