Los angeles Quotes · Page 8

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

— Herb Caen

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

— Nicolas Cage

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

— Elton John

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

— Matthew Nable

In late May 1993, I gave my first QLA Seminar at the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles.

— Dan Pena

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

— Robert Towne

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

— Roseanne Barr

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

— Jessica Chastain

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

— Henry Rollins

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who…

— Jello Biafra

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say,…

— Jane Levy

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in…

— Paul Crouch

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew…

— Curtis Hanson

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

— Jason Priestley

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

— William Faulkner

There's nowhere else in the world that's quite like that, where they encourage going after your dreams, especially in Los Angeles. I…

— Dean Lewis

At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor.…

— Khleo

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I…

— Christine Ebersole

It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My…

— Howie Long

“I feel an immediate closeness to anyone who loves New York or hates Los Angeles. Either condition is sufficient, but I’ve found…

— Rebecca Goldstein

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that…

— Richard Rodriguez

For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles.…

— Paul Virilio

“Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in.…

— Warren Ellis

“There are never any real stars in LA, but we’ve got a bunch of fake ones made out of brass and terrazzo.…

— Kris Kidd

“I opened the front door of my parents’ house the next evening. His starched blue denim shirt caught my eye only seconds…

— Ree Drummond

I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to…

— Iliza Shlesinger

“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In real life, there are right-wingers, there are anti-immigrant activists who want to overturn this constitutional right that we have to become…

— Hector Tobar

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to…

— Shailene Woodley

“He began the patter, the Ladies-and-gentlemen-I-want-to-welcome-you-to. Dot and Bertie Fetters sat forward in their seats, so thrilled to be entertained that for…

— Ann Patchett

“Just outside of Greater Los Angeles, in a town called Claremont, are five colleges—Pomona, Pitzer, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont Mckenna. At…

— Max Brooks

“A universal voucher program is but one potential policy recommendation. Let others come. Establishing the basic right to housing in America could…

— Matthew Desmond

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

— Borns

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

— Justin Halpern

I'm from Los Angeles. I grew up on the west side. I went to Pali High, Paul Revere, Country Canyon.

— Diana Silvers

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

— Berkeley Breathed

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

— Ralphie May

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

— Jean Baudrillard

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

— Ice T