Alex Wolff Quotes

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

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'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

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.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

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.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell at you, but it's nice.

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

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

I'm a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty.

I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I've had people come up to me and say, 'You're a great New Yorker. You've given your time and money to so many New York charities. You're a great supporter of the arts. I like some of your movies - and some of your movies suck, actually.'