Zach Galifianakis Quotes

One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun.

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

New York is a woman / holding, according to history, / a rag called liberty with one hand / and strangling the earth with the other.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.

One of the first memories I have, we went to - actually, we stopped in New York for a little bit, and I remember going to Macy's with my mom. And I was a big fan of the color orange, and they had Snoopy orange gloves, hat and scarves. And I bought it, and it was the best thing ever. I loved America right there. That was it.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

My worst job would have to be waiting tables at a restaurant in N.Y. My boss was evil.