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I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Hair, Punk, Dressed

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.
Rainn Wilson

Before, Film, Theater

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
Madonna Ciccone

Music, Business, Left

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
Anna Kendrick

Age, Society, Cool

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

Music, School, Night

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

Life, Happiness, Thought

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.
Rob Sheffield

Cool, Rock, Nothing

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
Padma Lakshmi

Career, Paris, Model

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Padma Lakshmi

Mom, Single, America

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.
Puff Daddy

Stars, Three, Hollywood

I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.
Puff Daddy

Love, Music, Home

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
Alexander Payne

Black, Why, Seems

I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background, especially teenagers - they're so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: 'Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?'
Sherri Shepherd

Love, Time, Mind

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
Jeff Goodell

Good, Fight, Evil

New York City has the most beautiful women.
Jason Mraz

Women, Beautiful, City

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.
Kristen Wiig

Put, Around, Walk

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.
Kristen Wiig

Until, Lived, Grade

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Ethel Waters

Time, Big, American

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
Tim Robbins

Young, Theater, Encourage

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens

Business, Night, Before

Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
Dan Stevens

Good, Best, Experience

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
Dan Stevens

Sometimes, Here, Show

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.
Julie Walters

Reality, Writing, Lost

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
Ringo Starr

Here, Choice, English

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
Taylor Momsen

Home, Everything, Few

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

Great, Around, Move

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
David Letterman

Remember, Ahead, Apart

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
David Letterman

Rough, Traffic, Guidelines

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
Paula Radcliffe

Success, Different, Point

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
Ville Valo

Music, Business, Hard

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