There’s not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it’s a natural force so it’s not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That’s my comment to Hollywood. – Roland Emmerich
I’m born and raised in New York. I’ve lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years. – Perry Chen
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film’s come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally. – Patrick Marber
The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are. – Paul Manafort
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack. – Rudy Giuliani
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody – I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes. – Questlove
When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, ‘Oh I heard of this place.’ I applied, and ended up getting in. – Oscar Isaac
‘The New York Times’ breathlessly writes about the left-of-center Americans Elect being a ‘new third party,’ but we already have a third party: the Libertarian Party. – Roger Stone
In London, ‘Equus’ caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. – Peter Shaffer
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything. – Richard Foreman
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. – Robert Pinsky
Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC. – Ron Conway
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York. – William Shatner
I’m a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I’ve ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. – Samira Wiley
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. – Thomas Wolfe
I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled. – Simon Schama
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. – William E. Geist
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. – Yayoi Kusama
