Alexandra Daddario Quotes

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

I'm not a regionalist. Both places have their pros and cons. And the cultural differences are slighter than they are made out to be. L.A. riots, N.Y. shops. Both are good for stress relief.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

New York is tough on lonely people.