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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.

I love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.

Scorpio Island, everyone calls it - they say if you fall in love in Ibiza, then it lasts forever.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

Playing on the Clippers, that was the first time I really felt like I was like on an island by myself.

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island… those bridges… the skyline… the dynamism.

My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

Antigua has 365 beaches, one for each day of the year, which I think is rather unique for such a small island.

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

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