Chris Gethard Quotes

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

I'm not used to going out every single night, which you can do in New York.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.