Ilana Glazer Quotes

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound.

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.