Gangs Of New York Film Quotes

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set. ~ Stephen Graham

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. ~ Jeffrey Wright

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks ... although the latter is much less realistic. ~ Kenneth Lonergan

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so! ~ Spike Lee

I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea. ~ Brett Ratner

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members. ~ Carter F. Smith

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York. ~ William Shatner

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. ~ Armistead Maupin

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde. ~ Julie Harris

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. ~ Fisher Stevens

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year. ~ Piper Perabo

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York ... New York ... New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander ~ Karla M. Nashar

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead. ~ Shirley Knight

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. ~ James M. Cain

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper. ~ ASAP Rocky

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York. ~ Leighton Meester

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with. ~ Lloyd Kaufman

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. ~ Bob Dylan

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say. ~ Latrell Sprewell

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights) ~ Ed Park

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can't live in New York anymore. ~ Alec Baldwin

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody. ~ T.A

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way. ~ James Purdy

LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all running into each other.

New York is the city that never sleeps. Los Angeles is an endless sea of suburbs. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

I've been in New York City now for 22 years. ~ Julie Gold

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.' ~ Guillaume Canet

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location. ~ Spike Lee

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period! ~ Jonas Mekas

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York. ~ Martin Scorsese

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on. ~ Ken Burns

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. ~ Man Ray

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off. ~ Adam Rapp

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day. ~ Andrew Sullivan

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

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream. ~ Ralph Ellison

I don't go home and pretend I'm August rather than just the actual lines I'm saying in the film. If you do it that way, it makes it more natural and second nature. After awhile you get used to it and there's so much, especially being in New York to film; you're always surrounded by American people. ~ Freddie Highmore

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ~ Rosamund Pike

I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents - leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind - and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine. ~ Gillian Flynn

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums. ~ Ralph Gibson

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city. ~ Patti Smith

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this? ~ Manfred Gerstenfeld

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York. ~ Frank Sinatra

Your first time in New York, feeling like you were marching through canyons, the skyscrapers leaning over to peek down at you and your trombone. ~ David Levithan

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome. ~ Woody Allen

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. ~ Colson Whitehead

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. ~ Fred Allen

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Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?' ~ Dennis Prager

I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling. ~ Frankie Cosmos

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore. ~ Moby

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. ~ Amor Towles

New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes. ~ Rebecca McNutt

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera. ~ Anna Kendrick

Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end ... it's just an extraordinary shot. ~ Martin Scorsese

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ~ David Letterman

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ~ John Updike

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City. ~ Elaine Stritch

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown. ~ Princess Superstar

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee. ~ Jacoby Ellsbury

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York. ~ Otis Rush

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does ~ Groucho Marx

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. ~ Henry Miller

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times. ~ John F. Kennedy

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York. ~ Art Garfunkel

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York. ~ Shaun Fleming

New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign. ~ Charles Emmerson

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times. ~ Judy Holliday

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. ~ Lewis Grizzard

New York is a state of mind
that doesn't mind
fucking up a brother.

from "New York New York" by the Last Poets ~ Abiodun Oyewole

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks. ~ Paul Dano

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching. ~ Faith Prince

No, I didn't make it to New York. I fucking love New York, even though my version of the American dream is impossible there and their gross, floppy pizza is like eating someone's post–plastic surgery skin. ~ Samantha Irby

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews. ~ Harold C. Schonberg

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York. ~ Stephen King

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. ~ Griffin Dunne

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York. ~ David Frost

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority. ~ Phil Angelides

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ~ Djuna Barnes

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. ~ Gore Vidal

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise. ~ Nate Berkus

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films. ~ Emma Watson

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous. ~ Ethan H. Minsker

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ~ Pearl S. Buck

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. ~ Gore Vidal

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second. ~ Fran Lebowitz

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. ~ Neil Simon

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide. ~ David Letterman

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. ~ Tom Ford

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. ~ Anthony Weiner

The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs. ~ Jay Leno

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it. ~ Mike Myers

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. ~ Art Buchwald

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways. ~ Gillian Jacobs

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. ~ Colson Whitehead

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ~ Martin Scorsese

I don't think I'm ready for New York. ~ Art Tatum