Times Square, also known as the 'crossroads of the world' is synonymous with New York City.
If New York is the Big Apple, Times Square is its biggest bite. People have often quoted that this iconic place is a tourist trap they don't mind falling into.
Times Square is dotted with massive illuminated billboards, Broadway theaters, and several arena shows. These arena shows remain jam-packed almost every day of the year, with people flocking around to reminisce about the old times and enjoy the new.
Renowned authors and filmmakers have mentioned Times Square frequently in books and movies. In this article, we have compiled the best and funniest Times Square quotes by celebrities all around the world. Read them to fall in love with his favorite corner of New York.
Funny Times Square Quotes
These Times Square quotes will tickle your funny bone.
“I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn’t be caught dead there.” - James McBride.
“I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.” - Betty Gilpin.
“I won’t go anywhere near the new Times Square. It’s seizure-inducing.” - Jami Attenberg.
“This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.” - Dan Rather.
“No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!'” - Joe Gatto.
“I’m waiting for the Times Square characters to start dressing as me.” - Scott Rogowsky.
“Wouldn't it be great if cars came equipped with screens like that thing they have in Times Square that spells out the news?” - Albert Brooks.
“For people who mourn for old Times Square – hey, there’s a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!” - Kurt Braunohler.
“How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square?” - Mary Kate Olsen.
“Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?” - Jonathan Safran Foer.
“People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square.” – Daniel Humm
“I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.” - Greta Gerwig.
“I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple” - Shrey Rathi, November 30, 2020, @shrey_rathi
“I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.” - Alessia Cara.
“The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's. All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.” - 'Tales Of Times Square', Josh Alan Friedman.
“God bless Manhattan, you know, because it must be six in the morning on a Sunday yet trash collection trucks are teeming down the street and Times Square workers in their bright-orange uniforms are cleaning up the night’s excesses.” - 'Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist', Rachel Cohn.
“Times Square, much like these TV ads, expects little of us, if not quite the worst." - 'Lilian Boxfish Takes A Walk', Kathleen Rooney.
“When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.” - Charlie Chaplin.
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” - Agatha Christie.
“It's New York City, you want to be shown in Times Square. you want your picture there. You want those kind of things. To inspire people, that's really what it's about.” - RJ Barrett.
“In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention.” - Al Sharpton.
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” - Fran Lebowitz
“Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.” - BBC Travel.
“I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square.” - Simon Artmitage.
“My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.” - Padma Lakshmi.
“The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” - Alex Baze.
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” - James Baldwin.
“I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.” - Gilbert Gottfried.
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” - Le Corbusier.
“I hate, hate Times Square!” - Elena Roger.
“It's always busy in Times Square, not that we've been out at two in the morning. That's what we hear.” - Channing Frye.
"A tourist trap I don’t mind being caught in."
"The Hello Kitty in Times Square just wished us Happy New Year’s!"
"My favorite restaurant in NYC is Times Square."
Times Square Movie Quotes
The Best Time Square Quotes used in movies and songs are compiled into one list. Find it below.
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” - 'The Great Gatsby', F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Times Square, are you shining just for me? I'm just a small-town girl with big-city dreams.” - 'City Of Stars', Justin Paul.
“I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years' Eve.” - Douglas Brunt.
“Times Square—loud and bright twenty-four hours a day, bearing a more stunning light than the Statue of Liberty ever could, a Disneyfied Lucifer leading New York’s damned to a fire ever-building, ever-burning.” - 'In Limbo', A.D Aliwat.
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” - Ryan Adams.
“I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress.” - Verite.
“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.” - Michel Gondry.
“It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels.” - Adam Cohen.
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck." - James Wolcott.
“Hey there Delilah, what's it like in New York City?” - 'Hey There Delilah", Plain White T's.
“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.” - Dhani Jones
“New York was the only place in America where a person could actually live a halfway livable life.” - 'Paper Towns', John Green.
“Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.” - Cathleen Schine.
“For me, having walked through Times Square so many times as a broke and starving artist, as a TV star, and now having other hopes and dreams, it just represents possibility and the moment of full circle.” - Tituss Burgess.
“To see those pictures on a Times Square billboard, and they were completely unretouched, I just was like, 'Wow. I finally feel good enough!'” - Iskra Lawrence.
“Around 16 I began going out with friends to the city. That's where the action was. We would go to this place on Times Square - real shifty - and get fake IDs made up.” - Rande Gerber.
“The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations.” - Sean M. Caroll.
“The very first time I came to The States I came right to New York and I remember walking around Times Square, I saw a couple of shows and I thought, 'I'd love to come here and do this.” - Cody Simpson.
“Everyone wants to be chosen for Up Next. You get on a billboard in Times Square and in Los Angeles! This helps get your name out there on a huge scale.” - Dean Lewis.
“I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day.” - John Waters.
“The Times Square incident wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a Jim Carrey movie.” - Christopher Titus.
Famous Times Square Quotes
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(Times Square is New York's most famous square.)
“It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” - Timothy F. Cahill.
“There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve.” - Kimberly Guilfoyle.
“You can’t stop traffic on Times Square.” - Sydney Pollack.
“Everyone loves to feast their eyes on Times Square on New Year’s Eve.” - Kimberly Guilfoyle.
"The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence because New York is best seen with innocent eyes."
“From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square.” - Penn Jillette
“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.” - Jennifer Garner
“Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” - John Steinbeck
“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square – you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.” – Dhani Jones
“Baby, I’m from New York, a concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” - 'New York', Alicia Keys.
“Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is the day.” - Joseph O’Neill
“I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!” - Betty Who.
“L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.” - Jimmy Fallon
“Things always change and New York teaches you that.” - Richard Hell.
“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe." - The Cricket In Time Square', George Selden.
"There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York."
- 'New York', Alicia Keys.
But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square. - Sean Combs.
“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation than five times the population of any other portion of the country.” - Malcolm S. Forbes.
“But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.” - Marlo Thomas.
“After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV...” - Ashley Wagner.
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline .” - Ayn Rand.
“Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square...” - Eric Holder.
“I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.” - Mary Ann Mobley.
"Surrounded by beauty."
“Well, I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building.” - Pauline Chalamet.
“Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a Technicolor bazaar.” - Kenneth Tynan
Best Times Square Quotes
Enjoy this compilation of the best Times Square quotes by your favorite authors, with a cup of tea or hot chocolate!
“Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.” - 'Hey There Delilah', Plain White T's.
“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost – it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.” - Jack Kerouac.
“I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.” - Janeane Garofalo.
“I don’t mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.” - Lee Ranaldo.
“I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.” - Allen Ginsberg.
"Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades."
“I knew that I needed to quiet my mind; lucky for me, there is no place to quiet your mind like the northernmost edge of Manhattan’s Times Square.” - 'My Squirrel Days', Ellie Kemper.
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” - Peter Shaffler.
“I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking.” - Debi Mazar.
“I don’t hunt, I don’t camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!” - David Grann.
More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. - Marilyn J. Appleberg
“The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath." - 'The Beautiful And The Damned', F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.” - 'The Cricket In Time Square', George Selden.
“I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on postcards.” - Milos Forman.
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” - Dorothy Parker.
“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” - Susan Ertz
“New York is not a city, it’s a world.” - Iman.
“If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” - Ellen R. Shapiro
“Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.” - David Wilkerson.
“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.” - Ayn Rand.
“When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater.” - Jenna Ushkowitz.
“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square.” - Rich Sommer.
“I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” - Madonna.
“One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here.” - Marlo Thomas.
“There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does.” - Jan Vogler.
“New York is a city that plays hard to get." - Rony Vardi.
“When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.” - Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
“My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger.” - Don Winslow.
"The Deuce' came about when David Simon and I were put in contact with a guy who, along with his twin brother, owned a couple bars in Times Square." - George Pelecanos.
“In a city where millions of people are drawn to Times Square, we need to push against the immorality that has taken root there once again so families can enjoy New York.” - Ruben Diaz Sr.
“New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.” - David B. Lentz.
“And we are giddy, because dawn is here, we’re at the center of the world and we’re at the center of our own universe, and spring is here, and the air smells wet and clean.” - Rachel Cohn.
“Guys like you can’t escape the city…you got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl.” - Mickey Spillane
"Meet me in Times Square."
