New york quotes

“- Dodge: You're Chinese?
- Santiago: I'm Cuban. But I have an affinity for all cultures. Part of my mongrel upbringing on the streets of New York.
- Dodge: New York. That explains the hostility.”

Stephen Baldwin - Dodge
Victor Rivers - Santiago

“- Luca: Why don't we go out on Saturday? We could go to the movie so if nothing is playing, you could show me around Stoneybrook.
- Stacey McGill: Well, this is kind of it. I mean, it's not like New York City or anything. That's where I grew up. Have you ever been there?
- Luca: No, not yet.
- Stacey McGill: It's the best!”
Christian Oliver - Luca
Bre Blair - Stacey McGill

“Do you know what your problem is? You live here. You're jaded. What you need is an outsider. In the last 24 hours I have experienced more in this city that most people who have lived here their whole lives! I climbed to the top of a luxury hotel! Not in the elevator! On the actual hotel itself! And then I fell...in love with my wife all over...” (continue)(continue reading)

Steve Martin - Henry Clark

"Paramount Pictures presents “The Freak”. This movie won't just scare you, it will fuck you up for life”. I want to know how the fuck the word "fuck" gets in the New York fucking Times!

J. T. Walsh - Drucker

“Everybody in this city is a victim. Welcome to New York.”
Frank Whaley - Steve Bushak

“Well, there's something you don't see every day.”

Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman

“- Lost Baggage Clerk: Where are you staying in the Boston area?
- Henry Clark: In the Boston area we are staying in New York.”
William Duell - Lost Baggage Clerk
Steve Martin - Henry Clark

“- Ellen Olenska: Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything.
- Newland Archer: Everything is labeled, but everybody is not.
- Ellen Olenska: Then I must count on you for warnings too.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

- Mrs. Archer: Beaufort is a vulgar man.
- Newland Archer: Nevertheless, no business nuisance escapes him. Most of New York trusts him with its affairs.
- Mrs. Archer: My grandfather, Newland, always used to say to mother, "don't let that fellow Beaufort be introduced to the girls".
Siân Phillips - Mrs. Archer
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Village People: Leatherman: I'm from the Bronx. My name's Glenn Hughes.
- Samantha: What do you do, Glenn?
- Village People: Leatherman: I'm a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
- Norma White: Do all toll collectors look like that?
- Village People: Leatherman: Just the hot ones.”
Glenn Hughes - Village People: Leatherman
Valerie Perrine - Samantha
Barbara Rush - Norma White

“You get your picture in the papers, you're famous. You're famous, you get anything you want. That's what's so great about New York.”
Max Casella - Racetrack Higgins

“This isn't New York, this the Bronx!”
Guy Davis - Kenny 'Double K' Kirkland

“- Flight Attendant: Do you think you're late enough?
- Grimm: Oh, you must be from around here.”

Margo Skinner - Flight Attendant
Bill Murray - Grimm

“- Kate McCallister: What kind of idiots do you have working here?
- Desk Clerk: The finest in New York.”
Catherine O'Hara - Kate McCallister
Dana Ivey - Desk Clerk

“- Samuel Gerard: Cosmo, where are you?
- Renfro: I'm in traffic! I'm in New York City! Where the hell do you think I am? We're on our way!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard
Joe Pantoliano - Renfro

“- Nick Conklin: A couple of guys I used to work with in the department took some money from some drug dealers. No big deal.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: They stole?
- Nick Conklin: They liberated funds.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: Theft is theft. There is no gray area.
- Nick Conklin: Hey Matsu, New York is one big gray area.”
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin
Ken Takakura - Matsumoto Masahiro

I don't know anyone in New York who doesn't say "I'm leaving". I've been thinking of leaving New York for... uh... thirty-five years now.
Lou Reed - Man with Strange Glasses

“- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [sarcastically] That oughta do it....” (continue)(continue reading)

Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman

“It's messy, it's crowded, it's polluted, and there are people who would just as soon step on your face as look at you. But come on! There's gotta be a few sparks of sweet humanity left in this burned-out berg.”

Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz

“The last guinea who walked around up here was Columbus, and he only lasted a week.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jackie Flannery