Alec Baldwin Quotes

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.

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.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.