I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.
When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.
I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!
I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
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 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 was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
