I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.
Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.
You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
Every time I went out, someone had to look at me or talk to me, and I just got sick of it. Now I have a very anonymous life, which I really love, and then I come to New York, and people bug out of me.
I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.
Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day. . . If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging my parents as a kid to move to New York, so it was just something that I sort of knew from a young age.
I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move the play back. I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naïve about the theater, a total innocent. He says to me, have you ever been to a rehearsal room? Do you realize you are opening at the Public in New York? You do understand that the audience will be New York theater people?
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it back clean. It enables you. Writers always feel guilty when they're doing anything but writing, and New York allows you to really write all the time if you want to - though my kids put a limit on it.