NY on TV: Best Quotes

10. "I'm gonna audition for a Broadway play, because if I can't make it there, I can't make it anyplace."

Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes), Will & Grace

9. "A New Yorker who does not take the subway is not a New Yorker you can trust."

Mozzie (Willie Garson), White Collar

8. "If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan."

Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), Mad Men

7. "The city's almost clean now. They said Guiliani cleaned everything up, but someone will always find a new way to cut your throat."

Ray Fiske (Zeljko Ivanek), Damages

6. "New York City is all about sex. People getting it, people trying to get it, people who can't get it. No wonder the city never sleeps. It's too busy trying to get laid."

Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Sex and the City

5. "This is New York, Jim, we wear black; and that's only until something darker comes along."

Marsha Bickner (Christine Baranski), Welcome to New York

4. "New York is like Scranton on acid. No…on speed…no, on steroids."

Michael Scott (Steve Carell), The Office

3. "I'm too big for New York, okay? I'm always trying to fit into cramped little subway seats, or duck under doorways that were built a hundred and fifty years ago. Hey, guess what, people are bigger now! Build bigger doorways! What the hell is the matter with you? And it's so loud. All the time. Yes, it's the city that never sleeps. Well, guess what? I like to sleep! I've been tired for eight years!"

Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), How I Met Your Mother

2. "New York City is a marvelous machine filled with a mesh of levers and gears and springs, like a fine watch, wound tight. Always ticking."

Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse), Mad Men

1. "If you can only have one great love, then the city just may be mine. And I don't want nobody talkin' shit about my boyfriend."

Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Sex and the City

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