Los Angeles Quotes

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

I love living in Los Angeles.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama.

I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.