Big City Life Quotes

I grew up in New York City and in London.

I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

When I first travelled to New York in 1982 on a summer holiday as a student, I remember thinking how exciting it was, how energising it felt, and also how it felt dangerous - it was a place where you could make a wrong turn, either geographically or just in a human interaction, and suddenly find yourself in trouble.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

I could move to New York. I love it here.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.

In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

Being able to move to New York - that was a dream come true.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.

When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.

Not really anything wrong with Memphis. New York is just more where I wanted to be.

I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York.

I've lived in New York City all my life. I love New York City; I've never moved from New York City. Have I ever thought about moving out of New York? Yeah, sure. I need about $10 million to do it right, though.

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.