Tim Daly Quotes

The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

I love cities.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

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.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

In New York, the trains run all night, and the cabs are so cheap.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

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.

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.