To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
I've got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It's kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It's awesome and scary, because they're so much cooler than me.
I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.
We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
Well, it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can't cross the street, they're not going to take it well. Southern California? They'll wait. It's cool man. In New York, they're like, 'Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.'
Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!
More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.
No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways.
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.
Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was always bad.
I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'
Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.
I'm not a New York snob.
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.
I came out of a building and this woman stopped me, like, 'You're Miss Universe!' And she was a New Yorker! I'm not used to New Yorkers being fans, because they're so blase about it, you know.
The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust.
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.
