The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.
Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.
It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
