New York in the Movies: 10 Best Quotes
6910. "Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity."
Harry (Joe Pesci), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
9. "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right."
The Mayor (David Margulies), Ghostsbusters 2
8. "The place: New York City. The time: Now, 1962. And there's no time or place like it. If you've got a dream, this is the place to make that dream come true. That's why the soaring population of hopeful dreamers has just reached eight million people. Oh! Make that eight million and one."
Narrator, Down with Love
7. "That's the great thing about New York. You walk down the street and you encounter like a thousand potential sexual partners every day. A walk to the deli can be very erotic."
Tommy (Edward Burns), Sidewalks of New York
6. "This is New York City. The only happy endings are in Chinatown."
Beth (Alexis Bledel), The Good Guy
5. "This city here is like an open sewer, ya know; it's full of filth and scum."
Travis Brickle (Robert De Niro), Taxi Driver
4. "Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be."
Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), Manhattan
3. "There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca
2. "This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye."
Ben Hecht, Nothing Sacred
1. "Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here."
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), Annie Hall
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