Big City Dreams Quotes

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

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.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back.

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.

For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.

I'm a city boy.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden against one of the greats. What a great way to finish off.

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.