Trevor Moore Quotes

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

I am a New Yorker.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

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

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

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

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 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.

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

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.

I just try to reflect the grittiness in New York. I try to protect the grit and the dirt that comes with it, which is a good thing.