Zoe Saldana Quotes

I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

No one in New York hangs out in their apartments.

N.Y. is definitely one of my favorites. Love the culture, people, attitude and music, art, and fashion.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they're reading, what they smell like, what they are listening to, how they talk to their friends.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.