92 Movie Quotes about New York (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about new york, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What kind of idiots do you have working here? -The finest in New York.

Catherine Ohara in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

2 I went to New York once in 1981, and I just did not feel safe.

Seth MacFarlane as Ted in Ted (2012)

3 I bet they're asleep in New York. I bet they're asleep all over America.

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)

4 In New York? Sir, I'm afraid of my own shadow.

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

5 Do you ever see any penguins running free around New York City? Of course not. We don't belong here. It's just not natural.

Tom McGrath as Skipper The Penguin in Madagascar

6 If you knew what it means to breathe this free air! This wonderful, wonderful America! Its youth! Its genius! Its vitality! The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Charlie Chaplin as King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

7 Thanks, but the last time I was in New York, I kind of broke Harlem.

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner Hulk in The Avengers (2012)

8 I can get around a city like New York, but I sometimes need a point in the right direction.

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

9 I mean, they might call it the city that never sleeps, but I'll tell you this, it takes a lot of _ing weed naps.

Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins in Half Baked

10 New York? I've been there. Stinks of fish.

Ernest Borgnine as Bart Lonergan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

92 Movie Quotes about New York (+ Sound Clips)

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