Kelly Cutrone Quotes

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Without New York, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn't make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don't have expectations.

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

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

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

I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.

New York taught me everything.

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.