New york quotes

“- Joanna Eberhard: If you're in Manhattan, what do you do if you find out you're neighbour is sick?
- Roger Bannister: Call her...
- Bobbie Markowitz: To see if she is going to die...
- Roger Bannister: So we could rent the apartment.”
Nicole Kidman - Joanna Eberhart
Roger Bart - Roger Bannister
Bette Midler - Bobbie Markowitz

“Kid, here in New York we have three distinct social classes. A. People who make a billion dollars a day and get laid in some tower every night. B. People who live in Times Square and eat Yankee Doodles on the sidewalk. And C. Guys like me. Guys who I like to call the glue in society.”

Bruno Kirby - Victor Ray

“I'm scared 24 hours a day, but not necessarily in New York. I actually feel pretty comfortable in New York. I get scared like in Sweden. You know, it's kind of empty. They're all drunk. Everything works. If you, you know... If you stop at a stop light and don't turn your engine off... people come over and talk to you about it. You open the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lou Reed - Man with Strange Glasses

“- Jackie Flannery: The funeral's in Queens. I hate driving in fucking Queens.
- Terry Noonan: Do you want me to drive?
- Jackie Flannery: Nah... then I would have to look out the window.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jackie Flannery
Sean Penn - Terry Noonan

“We came to town to see a ball game, and now they wanna give us the chair. I love New York. Bring your kids. Have them arrested. Do some time in the Big Apple.”
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“- Mario Mario: This can't be Manhattan.
- Luigi Mario: I don't know, I haven't been to Manhattan in a couple weeks.
- Mario Mario: Must have been a bad couple of weeks.”
Bob Hoskins - Mario Mario
John Leguizamo - Luigi Mario

“You have to be strong to survive in this city.”

Patricia Arquette - Mary Burke

“- Harry Lime: Smell that?
- Marv Merchants: [sniffs] Yeah.
- Harry Lime: Know what that is?
- Marv Merchants: Fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom.
- Marv Merchants: No, it's fish.
- Harry Lime: It's freedom, and it's money.”

Joe Pesci - Harry Lime
Daniel Stern - Marv Merchants

"Cats" is the second-worst thing that ever happened to New York City.
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke

“- Grace Foster: Take this. It's Uncle Howard's phone number in New York.
- Brantley Foster: I've got an uncle in New York?
- Grace Foster: My cousin Ellen married his half-sister's nephew, before she got bit by that dog and died.”
Elizabeth Franz - Grace Foster
Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster

“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

“- Fievel: Are we out west yet?
- Mama Mousekewitz: West Jersey, maybe.”
Phillip Glasser - Fievel
Erica Yohn - Mama Mousekewitz

“- Sheldon Kornpett: Did we hit the little boy on Sixth Avenue?
- Vince Ricardo: No, we missed him by a good foot and a half.”
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett
Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“- Helmut Grokenberger: No, no, it's...
- YoYo: What you mean 'No?'.
- Helmut Grokenberger: It's not allowed! Not allowed!
- YoYo: It's allowed! This is New York!”

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Helmut Grokenberger
Giancarlo Esposito - YoYo

“- Helden von Tiebolt: Don't speak for a moment, just listen. These precautions may seem foolish to you, but they are necessary, I promise you!
- Noel Holcroft: Listen, lady, three days ago, I was forty stories in the air, over New York, in a gale force wind, hiding from an insane building contractor. Let me tell you something. I felt safer there...” (continue)(continue reading)

Victoria Tennant - Helden von Tiebolt
Sir Michael Caine - Noel Holcroft

“- Dennis McCabe: I've never been to Long Island.
- Bill McCabe: Yes you have.
- Dennis McCabe: I have?
- Bill McCabe: Yeah. You've been to Queens. Queens is Long Island.
- Dennis McCabe: Queens is a part of New York City. I don't think it's really considered part of Long Island.”
Bill Sage - Dennis McCabe
Robert John Burke - Bill McCabe

“For 15 years now, we have lived here. Before that time, I was a pet of my master Yoshi. When we were forced to come to New York, I found myself for the first time without a home, wandering thew sewers, scavaging for whatever I could find. And then, one day, I came upon a shattered glass jar and four baby turtles.”
Kevin Clash - Splinter

“- Rennie Wickham: Look, you don't understand. There is a maniac trying to kill us.
- New York Waitress: Welcome to New York.”
Jensen Daggett - Rennie Wickham
Peggy Hedden - New York Waitress

“- Nancy: I hate my fuckin' life.
- Sid: This is just a rough patch. Things'll be much better when we get to America, I promise.
- Nancy: We're in America. We've been here a week. New York is in America, you fuck.”
Chloe Webb - Nancy Spungen
Gary Leonard Oldman - Sid Vicious

“- Louis Cyphre: Are you an atheist?
- Harry Angel: Yes, I am. I'm from Brooklyn.”
Robert De Niro - Louis Cyphre
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel

“They're all heavily armed and drunk. New York is boring!”

John Cusack - John Kelso

“- Kermit the Frog: Maybe we should give him a ride.
- Fozzie Bear: I don't know, he's pretty big. Hey there, wanna lift?
- Big Bird: No thanks. I'm on my way to New York City to try to break into public television.”
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear
Caroll Spinney - Big Bird

“New York teaches you to live life the way it should be lived. Moment to moment. Because every moment in New York could be your last. You could be walking down the street tomorrow, feeling good about yourself, drink free, drug free, looking forward to the future and somebody accidentally nudges their poodle off of a 75th floor ledge. And he's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“- Vera Prescott: I'm going to introduce you to the most powerful money men in New York, and if you can do to them what you've done to me...
- Brantley Foster: I can't do that!
- Vera Prescott: I mean bowl them over, darling! You're irresistible when you turn on that boyish charm.”
Margaret Whitton - Vera Prescott
Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster

“I don't think women in the Bronx have periods.”
Ryan Merriman - Lenny Levine