James Gray Quotes

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.

My children and I were all born in Los Angeles.

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.

I was a drummer in a group called Three Plus. We were performing at a club in New York, and my mother signed me up for tap classes. I fell in love from the door... so you can blame it on my mother.

I was the first of my siblings born here in the United States.

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

My entire family is from Palakkad, and my grandmother grew up in Kerala, as did my mom.

My parents retired to New York City, and my brother and both of my sisters ended up in New York City. We are all New York City transplants from Pennsylvania.

I have nothing but great things to say about Brooklyn.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.

It's always been, whether at school or now, that I am Pippa and Catherine's little brother.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.