I didn't know much about the world of Playboy before I…

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

— Agnes Varda

“French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands and atolls…

— David Stanley

“You’re American, yes?” Daniela said. “Yes.” “New York?” “Oregon.” “Dónde?” Where? “It’s a state on the West Coast.” “Near Los Angeles?” Brigitte asked. “North…

— Lisa Cach

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I…

— Lawrence Summers

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

— Five for Fighting

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

— Dan Quisenberry

We been bubblin' in the Los Angeles underground for years.

— Xzibit

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…

— Christopher Hitchens

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'…

— Caleb Landry Jones

“Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn't totally off…

— Justin Halpern

“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the Murder, She…

— Lee Goldberg

I was playing surf music with my band when a girlfriend of mine who had come from Los Angeles took me to a James…

— Timothy B. Schmit

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

— Janice Dickinson

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom