Feelings Quote by Edward Norton

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

— Joseph Barbera

“It was there that I wanted, out there somewhere, when I sat elbow-to-elbow with my giggling friends and let my thoughts swirl up and…

— Kat Rosenfield

Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.

— Laura Marling

Even though everyone told me that I was uncool to be from the Valley, I loved it so much because we kind of felt…

— Alana Haim

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

— Tom Hanks

“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”

— Michael Azerrad

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up…

— Bonnie McKee

“Despite the wishful thinking of evangelicals impatient for the Rapture or deep ecologists who believe that Gaia would be happiest with a thin sprinkling…

— Mike Davis

“No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an…

— Walton Bean

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my…

— Michael Light

Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.

— Hannah Brown

The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity.

— Cordae