Words matter. These are the best Empire State Quotes from famous people such as Donald Trump, Carl Paladino, Andrew Cuomo, Kenneth Lonergan, Fay Wray, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel – there are certain just spectacular landmarks – it’s an honor; it’s really an honor.
I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
It’s time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks… although the latter is much less realistic.
Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko’s ‘Spider-Man’ fights used to happen in and around.
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
I’ve been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
That New York energy, when you’ve got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight – there’s nothing like that.
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ is made up: no, you don’t get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
‘Sleepless’ was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.
When it was over my daughter said, ‘Oh, I felt so sorry for him – he didn’t want to hurt you, he liked you.’ That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
Realism is always subjective in film. There’s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building – eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it’s not really cinema verite, because you aren’t actually there.
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
