Anson Mount Quotes

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.

You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.

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

'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

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.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.