George C. Wolfe Quotes

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that.

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

I love walking the streets of New York.

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

I'm attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I'm attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like it's a wilderness of people and textures. Just like, there's so much life and richness here. And you can get lost in it.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York.

New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

I love New York. New York is busy. It's dirty. It's smelly. I'm a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.

I'm not talking about any one team but everyone knows how I feel about New York. I really enjoyed my time there.

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

I have nothing but love for my time I spent in Denver, and appreciation, and gratitude.