I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.
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REALLY JEANNIE I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t...
DREAMA WALKER I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.
AILEEN QUINN He would be just as apprehensive as I was, before the first film came out. Really, really, really ho...
STEPHEN COLBERT I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contr...
DANIEL LIBESKIND I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the ear...
CHLOE SEVIGNY I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I...
CALLIE THORNE New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot my...
VERA WANG I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I st...
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college ...
ABBI JACOBSON I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the mov...
ELIJAH KELLEY I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and ...
TEA LEONI The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
KURT BRAUNOHLER When I first got into acting, I had been doing it for about a year and got really excited and felt l...
JOEL RIET I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ...
ERIN GRAY The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it ...
ALEX TURNER I'm a city guy. I really like the fast-pace life, and there is no better place for that than L.A., u...
JUSTIN BLALOCK I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L....
PEDRO PASCAL Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York...
BILLY CRYSTAL It's starting to feel like New York City but with better weather. That's the thing that I'm really, ...
DEANNA BORN When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
VALERIE JUNE You really have to want it. I like the fires and the excitement. I want to be in Aurora, Chicago or ...
JAKE SPORNA When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more re...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love...
ALAFAIR BURKE When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally go...
MADI DIAZ I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no...
DYLAN WALSH I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other plac...
DAVE SITEK I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
BETH BRODERICK I love the life in New York. New York has an excitement about it. You have so many people, so many d...
PAULA CREAMER I had to make my focus on volleyball. It was really hard (not to play basketball). When I moved here...
LAURA WEST I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in Ne...
JOSH PECK It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was ...
JIM JARMUSCH I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
ADEPERO ODUYE I was impressed with the campaign for Bombay Sapphire; it's really original. Someone said, 'I know t...
TRUDIE STYLER For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.
CATHY ELKIES When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed a...
ALIA SHAWKAT Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY At first, I was really, really angry about the whole situation. Especially when we started practicin...
PAUL POSLUSZNY Right now, the money to play in Russia is very large. But I really wanted to play in the NHL, and es...
ALEXANDER FROLOV I think definitely in some of the major markets with big ethnic groups like New York and L.A., you'r...
DEANA MYERS We really have to be into it and be moving our feet at the beginning. Sometimes we don't do that, bu...
ALEXIS PLUKAS I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's reall...
TESSA THOMPSON I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of differen...
JESSE PLEMONS I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
ELLIOTT SMITH I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I...
KIM DICKENS Making the Chase was really cool. Making it to New York was the proper way to end it.
RUSTY WALLACE I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was e...
REIKO AYLESWORTH When my family first moved here, I hadn't really heard about the wrestling team and everything they'...
CHANDLER JONES I thought I had thought about it, but I didn't realize what it really meant until I saw a double pag...
MARGHERITA MISSONI I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, ...
TRISTAN WILDS He was just moving his front end, and his hind legs sort of moved shakily behind him, ... It was rea...
SUZAN MURRAY It would probably help my career if I lived in L.A., but I think it would be all-consuming. New York...
JULIA STILES which butchered my column. I feel like it never really appeared in L.A. before.
LIZ SMITH I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on...
DASCHA POLANCO I just wanted to be first. That's what it really was all about.
JAMEA JACKSON I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed Engla...
JONNY LEE MILLER We moved the ball really well. They were pressuring us really tight, but once we got the ball moving...
BECCA HURLEY I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on ...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
MILA KUNIS And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actuall...
GINNI ROMETTY Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love b...
HANNAH WARE I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure N...
ALAN YANG I really like this new fresh vision about denim, because we are from denim. But the weight we used, ...
FRANCOIS GIRBAUD I feel like I've moved up, ... I really feel like the coaches and scouts and general managers, I thi...
LEONARD DAVIS I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play ...
BROOKS ROBINSON All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
MAMIE GUMMER I really wanted to come to U of A. It was really a close decision. The only deciding factor was stay...
DIJON THOMPSON When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy rol...
BEBE NEUWIRTH My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to w...
TAMRA DAVIS My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
JACK HERER When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic...
RACHAEL HARRIS You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I ne...
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed E...
JONNY LEE MILLER This morning, I thought about maybe moving, but I've lived here for 30 years and I really love it he...
MATT FENNELL I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I ...
CECILY BROWN I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people ma...
BEAU MIRCHOFF We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, a...
JUNKO ABE I was really impressed with our first period. The first team played real well today. We moved the ba...
DON CHANDLER It makes me really happy for central New York.
JOEY SINDELAR The only thing I really hadn't done was throwing and distance. I really kind of dreaded the distance...
MELISSA TALBOT I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I reall...
HEATHER DOERKSEN I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped ...
VERA WANG He played really well. He moved the puck, and he was solid defensively. He played like I was expecti...
MICHEL THERRIEN It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, real...
CATHY ELKIES I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr...
SAM SIMON I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyon...
HAROLD BRODKEY Being really close to Blake, I felt a great deal of loss. I was really confused about why and stuff ...
JASON WEIMER I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Jou...
KEVIN NEALON When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr...
MADONNA CICCONE I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
SAMI GAYLE I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
BRUCE BERESFORD L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
DAKOTA JOHNSON When I got into coaching, I never really thought much about how long I'd do it. But after the first ...
BOB AYRAULT I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I ne...
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