Coney Island Quotes

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.

I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

There are certain fundamental things that scream, 'I just moved to New York.' Things like eating cheesecake at Junior's or heading out to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone.

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.