Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an archit...
I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing.
When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.
Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.
I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.
I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.
