Urvashi Rautela Quotes

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

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

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

Good and bad make up a city.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

Mumbai is more film based and cosmopolitan. It consists of a mixed community, but I personally feel that Delhi is more sophisticated and enjoys theatre more.

I was an innocent Delhi girl, which is good for an actress, but worked against me when I shifted to Mumbai.

Broadway's a little different from Houston, but it's not a big difference.

I have found Delhi so much more beautiful than Mumbai. South and central Delhi, especially, are just so beautiful - the roads, the trees, the buildings, the history.