Los Angeles Quotes

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles? it's called Los Angeles.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.