Los Angeles famous quotes

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
-- Alan Rickman

#Talking #Topics #Los Angeles

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

#Cities #Joy #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Cities #Los Angeles #Seven

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

#Thinking #People #Los Angeles

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.
-- Alona Tal

#Home #Careers #Los Angeles

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker
-- America Ferrera

#Perfect #Speak #Los Angeles

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Color #Green #Los Angeles

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
-- Anna Nicole Smith

#Paper #March #Los Angeles

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Thanksgiving #Turkeys #Los Angeles

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

#Hollywood #Addresses #Los Angeles

I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!
-- Ashley Jensen

#Distance #Way #Los Angeles

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

#Childhood #Different #Los Angeles

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

#School #Los Angeles #Restless

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
-- Billy Connolly

#Two #Los Angeles

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
-- Brenda Blethyn

#Enthusiasm #Los Angeles #Insincerity

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

#Home #Sweden #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
-- Carter Burwell

#Matter #Towns #Los Angeles

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.
-- Cat Power

#Men #Los Angeles #Moved

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
-- Christina Milian

#Musical #Los Angeles #Annie

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
-- Claire Forlani

#Vacation #Los Angeles

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

#Los Angeles #80s

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Way #Los Angeles #Burrowing

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
-- Danielle Panabaker

#College #Graduates #Los Angeles

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.
-- Dave Foley

#California #Los Angeles #Fantastic

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.
-- David Geffen

#Want #Failing #Los Angeles

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!
-- David Hasselhoff

#Snow #Chicago #Los Angeles

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

#Architecture #Los Angeles #Building

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

#Church #Principles #Los Angeles

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.
-- Diablo Cody

#Reality #Los Angeles #Retarded

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
-- Dorothy Parker

#Cities #Two #Los Angeles

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Focus #Dresses #Los Angeles

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
-- Ellie Kemper

#Veins #Unexpected #Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
-- Ellie Kemper

#People #Dresses #Los Angeles

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
-- Emanuel Ax

#Los Angeles

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Los Angeles #Ends #Parlor

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
-- Farrah Fawcett

#People #Lasts #Los Angeles

I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.
-- Greg Fitzsimmons

#Vegas #Relief #Los Angeles

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!
-- Gustavo Dudamel

#Los Angeles #Wells

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
-- Gustavo Dudamel

#Cities #Special #Los Angeles

I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.
-- Hedi Slimane

#Cities #Los Angeles #Mythology

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Los Angeles #Wanted

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.
-- Hugh Laurie

#Los Angeles

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
-- Ioan Gruffudd

#Los Angeles #Accents

Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.
-- Jackie Gayle

#Air #Smell #Los Angeles

It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got.
-- Jacob Latimore

#Waiting #Black #Los Angeles

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
-- James Ellroy

#Home #Vacation #Los Angeles

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
-- Jason Biggs

#Lazy #Pounds #Los Angeles

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
-- Jeremy Piven

#Done #Pavement #Los Angeles

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
-- Jessica Chastain

#Thinking #Firsts #Los Angeles

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.
-- Joan Juliet Buck

#New York #Paris #Los Angeles

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.
-- John Larroquette

#Careers #Los Angeles

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
-- John Scalzi

#Vision #Want #Los Angeles

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.
-- Jonathan Culler

#California #Los Angeles

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

#San Diego #Los Angeles #Herpes

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.
-- Justin Kirk

#Jobs #Los Angeles #Couches

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
-- Karen Allen

#Stuff #Film #Los Angeles

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.
-- Kate Beckinsale

#Facts #Use #Los Angeles

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

#Needs #Los Angeles #Psychiatrist

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.
-- Kristin Chenoweth

#Spring #Los Angeles #Enjoy

Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.
-- Kyle Chandler

#Moving #Littles #Los Angeles

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
-- Layne Staley

#Towns #Los Angeles

Los Angeles has been good to me.
-- Lea Michele

#Los Angeles

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

#United States #Palaces #Los Angeles

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.
-- Linda Sunshine

#Fall #World #Los Angeles

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
-- Lisa See

#Los Angeles #Whole Life #Movie Business

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
-- Lisa See

#Chinese #Los Angeles

Los Angeles: where dreams go to make movies about themselves dying.
-- Liz Feldman

#Dream #Dying #Los Angeles

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
-- Lorna Luft

#Opportunity #Tonight #Los Angeles

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.
-- Maggie Grace

#Beach #Hawaii #Los Angeles

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
-- Marvin Davis

#Needs #Los Angeles #Enough

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Los Angeles

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.
-- Matthew Nable

#Choices #Los Angeles #Given

There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.
-- Matthew Rhys

#Unique #Missing #Los Angeles

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

#San Francisco #Los Angeles

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

#Attitude #Laughing #Los Angeles

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.
-- Missi Pyle

#Names #Red #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
-- Naveen Andrews

#Home #Los Angeles #Honestly

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.
-- Neill Blomkamp

#Half #Kind #Los Angeles

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Might #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
-- Norman Mailer

#Los Angeles #Plastic #Constellations

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Wonder #Los Angeles #Found

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-- Patrick Duffy

#Actors #Los Angeles #Carpenter

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.
-- Paul Crouch

#Germany #Los Angeles #Made

I live in a very dangerous part of Los Angeles.. it's called Los Angeles.
-- Ralphie May

#Los Angeles #Dangerous

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

#Drinking #Los Angeles #Life After Death

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.
-- Rita Rudner

#Dog #Towns #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.
-- Robert Crais

#Los Angeles

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
-- Robert Towne

#Water #Los Angeles

I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
-- Robert Vaughn

#College #California #Los Angeles

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

#Cities #Mexico #Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.
-- Sandra Tsing Loh

#Los Angeles #Scapegoat

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.
-- Sandra Tsing Loh

#People #Los Angeles #Extras

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

#Minnesota #Road Trip #Los Angeles

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.
-- Steven Morrissey

#Normal #Los Angeles

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
-- Swoosie Kurtz

#Firsts #Directors #Los Angeles

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

#Elbows #Los Angeles #Armpits

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
-- Tommy Lasorda

#Angel #Heaven #Los Angeles

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.
-- Viggo Mortensen

#People #Forget #Los Angeles

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
-- Ville Valo

#New York #Business #Los Angeles

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.
-- Warren Cuccurullo

#Missing You #Los Angeles #Missing A Person