New York Identity Quotes

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

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'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.

You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

We all grew up in Bronxville, I went to Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart - in the old location on Convent Avenue - and I've lived here since 1962. I couldn't feel more like a New Yorker.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.