“- Giselle: Nobody has been very nice to me.
- Robert: Yeah, well, welcome to New York.
- Giselle: Thank you.”
Amy Adams - Giselle
Patrick Dempsey - Robert Philip

“- Sadie Ratliff: Isn't it exciting?
- Rose Ratliff: Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!”

Bette Midler - Sadie Shelton
Lily Tomlin - Rose Shelton

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.”
Robert De Niro

“New York is a wonderful town. Everybody dreams about going there, but we're luckier than lots of families because we're really going. Wait till you see the nice new home we're going to have, and the loads and loads of new friends we're going to make.”

Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“The place: New York City. The time: Now, 1962. And there's no time or place like it. If you've got a dream, this is the place to make that dream come true. That's why the soaring population of hopeful dreamers has just reached eight million people. Oh! Make that eight million and one.”
Rick Scarry - Narrator