“I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.” ArtCareersNew YorkLondonDramaticAcademy Author:David Naughton
“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.” ActorsDifficultCareersSuccessfulNew YorkTelevisionMovedActressesScreensCardsMiamiObtainingGuildsSuccessful CareerTelevision Commercials Author:Donna Rice Hughes
“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.” PeopleSoulMovingCareersNew YorkSceneFolksHearingActressesMy SoulDroppingDeliveryPouringSpoken WordCatharticVery Moving Author:Sonja Sohn
“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.” IfsWorldEndsCitiesCareersNew YorkBustedCities In The World Author:Lenny Bruce
“The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.” WorldActorsDealsCompanyCareersNew York Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingHardReasonFacesFoundSocialBitsCareersMediaNew YorkCoupleWindowPressureGlassesSocial MediaPlatesRumorPinsRespectableOnce Upon A TimeExterior Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.” ThinkingMindFirstsDoneVoiceCareersNew YorkAnimatedRadar Author:Jodi Benson
“I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.” AbleThreeCareersFourNew YorkDivineMy FavoriteGoing To WorkNew Yorkers Author:Ali MacGraw
“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.” YearsBigsCitiesCareersStreetsNew YorkBrotherWallYears AgoNew York CityProfessional Career Author:Gerald Chertavian
“I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.” WholeAbleDiesLeftCareersNew YorkHopefully Author:Hank Williams III
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.” KnowsYearsLooksSometimesUseTogetherArtistGuyWaitingCitiesCareersNew YorkMarriedModelsWorking TogetherNew York CityDefinite Author:Mike Royer
“It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.” PeopleRunningCoursesCitiesCareersComedyFourHavensNew YorkLos AngelesBostonSan Francisco Author:Marc Maron
“Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.” WritingStillsStatesCareersNew YorkInstanceAssemblyNew York State Author:Mark Helprin
“I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.” ThinkingFirstsTwoJobsFilmMovingUniverseThreeCoursesFoundChanceCareersWeekNew YorkCollegeOffersSummerDecidedTheatrePlanesBagsLos AngelesTicketsFestivalsPlaces To LiveMassachusetts Author:Chris Pine
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.” ArtMadePlayUseActorsSidesPartyCitiesCareersFantasyNew YorkCollegePerformancesEastDancerNew York CityAwkwardMediocreDowntownDebutStarlightPerformance ArtMimeEast Side Author:Annaleigh Ashford
“There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.” MenHas BeensTwoNightReadingActorsCareersMorningNew YorkHusbandIdealsSeasonsWake UpOpeningAwardsReviewsWakingBroadwayHighlightsMorning AfterIdeal HusbandOpening Night Author:Martin Shaw
“If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dirty it is in New York. But, it's been the best move of my life, not necessarily for my career, but for my soul.” IfsSoulHardMovingForgetCareersNew YorkMy SoulDirty Author:Anson Mount
“As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.” PeopleLooksCareersOne ThingInfluenceNew YorkProudBrooklynBrooklyn New YorkUnderground Music Author:Talib Kweli
“I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.” PeopleLittlesHomeMovingCareersCreativeSeeingMiddleNew YorkEmotionalInternetTownsInspiredCome UpLondonPursueMiddle Of NowhereHome Town Author:Kesh
“Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.” StillsEnoughArtistChallengesCareersStageNew YorkUnionsBrilliantAgentsOddsBeing An ArtistPracticality Author:Debra Dean
“I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.” YearsMovingOrderActingCareersNew YorkCollegeMajorsWork OutPursueLos AngelesContractsSeniorTurned DownSenior Year Author:Justin Hires
“I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.” UsedHouseCareersNew YorkQuietBuiltNoiseEnd TimesSpend TimeManhattanQuiet TimeNina Author:Nikki Giovanni