Plaza Quotes

#1. In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

Darin Strauss

#2. I don't wanna go. I want to defile the prestigious Plaza Hotel by having you ride me like a slutty mermaid in the bathtub.

Emma Chase

#3. I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Molly Haskell

#4. Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw.

Jeanne DuPrau

#5. It felt good to stand out from the world, just mysterious and pious. You weren't a lantern under any basquet. You stood out righteous as a sore thumb. You were the one holy man to keep God from crushing all of the Sodom and Gomorrah seething around you in the Valley Plaza Shoping Center.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Renzo Piano

#7. Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

Emilio Estevez

#8. People worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.

Robert Crais

#9. Kronos himself paced at the top of the plaza, swinging his scythe

Rick Riordan

#10. The trouble was, the trolls up in the plaza probably weren't bad trolls, and the dwarfs down in the square probably weren't bad dwarfs, either. People who probably weren't bad could kill you.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.

Tom Parker Bowles

#12. Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#13. Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.

Andy Warhol

#14. So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#15. The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#16. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

Joan Ganz Cooney

#17. (text message) CMDR ROOT. TRBLE BELOW. HAVN OVRRN BY GOBLINS. PLCE PLAZA SRROUNDED. CUDGEON + OPL KBOI BHND PLOT. NO WPONS OR CMMUNICATIONS. DNA CNONS CNTRLLED BY KBOI. I M TRPPED IN OP BTH. CNCL THNKS IM 2 BLM. IF ALIVE PLSE HLP. IF NOT, WRNG NMBR.

Eoin Colfer

#18. It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have at the Plaza arcade, all that agony over a fuzzy piece.

Sam Lipsyte

#19. I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.

Kay Thompson

#20. We waited on the plaza
while the band wondered what to play
at a time like this - something
to console or wake the world,
or simply to please themselves.

Ron Slate

#21. Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Jorge Luis Borges

#22. I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

Kay Thompson

#23. You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

Sam Lipsyte

#24. Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.

George Vecsey

#25. I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

Francesca Lia Block

#26. The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

Richard Serra

#27. One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

Lawrence Halprin

#28. They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.

Daniel Alarcon

#29. I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Candace Bushnell

#30. Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

Philip Kitcher

#31. It's all coming back to me now: last night, Phil Constavia and I had dinner in San Diego's Glass Lamp District just before rushing into Horton Plaza to catch a chick-flick.

Laura Jane Hermanson

#32. I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Tommy Hilfiger

#33. It's rare to find someone as equally grumpy as myself, but somehow [Aubrey Plaza] does it.

Grumpy Cat

#34. Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

John F. Kennedy

#35. 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.

Donald Trump

#36. I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Vernon Jordan

#37. We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A

Jason Webster

#38. I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.

Aubrey Plaza

#39. I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

Aubrey Plaza

#40. I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.

Aubrey Plaza

#41. If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

Aubrey Plaza

#42. The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.

Aubrey Plaza

#43. I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an ice lake, so I'd like to come stay.

Aubrey Plaza

#44. I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Aubrey Plaza

#45. I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

Aubrey Plaza

#46. I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

Aubrey Plaza

#47. I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

Aubrey Plaza

#48. Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Aubrey Plaza

#49. There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

Aubrey Plaza

#50. A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

Aubrey Plaza

#51. I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Aubrey Plaza

#52. I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Aubrey Plaza

#53. I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.

Aubrey Plaza

#54. I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Aubrey Plaza

#55. I'm too awkward to date, I think. I'm kind of all or nothing, you know? Either put a baby inside of me or leave me alone.

Aubrey Plaza

#56. Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it.

Aubrey Plaza

#57. I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

Aubrey Plaza

#58. I sold my soul to the devil. I'd like to thank the devil.

Aubrey Plaza

#59. My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

Aubrey Plaza

#60. I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.

Aubrey Plaza

#61. I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

Aubrey Plaza

#62. Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

Aubrey Plaza

#63. If you feel like a weirdo, it's okay because weirdos rule the world.

Aubrey Plaza

#64. When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Aubrey Plaza

#65. I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.

Aubrey Plaza

#66. I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.

Aubrey Plaza

#67. I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

Aubrey Plaza

#68. It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

Aubrey Plaza

#69. Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality, whereas stand-up, you're alone and it was really hard.

Aubrey Plaza

#70. I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

Aubrey Plaza

#71. I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

Aubrey Plaza

#72. I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

Aubrey Plaza

#73. I want people to like me but not at my expense.

Aubrey Plaza

#74. I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

Aubrey Plaza

#75. When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.

Aubrey Plaza

#76. I am a Netflix/DVR junkie. I don't like to watch TV without a plan.

Aubrey Plaza

#77. Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Aubrey Plaza

#78. I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

Aubrey Plaza

#79. With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

Aubrey Plaza

#80. I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Aubrey Plaza

#81. Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Aubrey Plaza

#82. My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Aubrey Plaza

#83. When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

Aubrey Plaza

#84. It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

Aubrey Plaza

#85. Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

Aubrey Plaza

#86. The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.

Aubrey Plaza

#87. It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

Aubrey Plaza

#88. I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

Aubrey Plaza

#89. Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

Aubrey Plaza

#90. I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Aubrey Plaza

#91. My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

Aubrey Plaza

#92. There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Aubrey Plaza

#93. I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

Aubrey Plaza

#94. My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

Aubrey Plaza