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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

— Denis O'Hare

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

— Rainn Wilson

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

— Casey Nicholaw

Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

— Christopher Abbott

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

— Diplo

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

— Jason Alexander

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

— Valorie Curry

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

— Christopher Guest

✗Opposing Perspectives

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

— Shirley Knight

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

— John Mellencamp