Dani Shapiro Quotes

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

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

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

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

I moved to Queens from New Jersey in 2004 and have continued to stick with New York to such a degree that when people ask me to explain it, I'm sometimes unable to provide an answer.

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

Home is New York.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I embrace New York.

We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York.

I'm originally from New York, and I just have a love affair with that place.