Daily Quote by Hasan Minhaj

When I came up in L.A., a lot of comics produced their own shows, and so if you wanted to have a show in…

— Wyatt Cenac

I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved…

— Retta

My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central…

— Nico Santos

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

— Damian Lewis

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

— Ricky Jay

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard…

— Doug Benson

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten…

— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Friends are hard to come by in L.A., especially in the entertainment industry. I've known a lot of people who hang out with someone…

— Sarah Hyland

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

— Andrea Martin

I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up…

— Erik Griffin

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

— Stephen Stills

I lived in L.A., and the possibility out there is endless. I could've done reality TV! It was offered to me plenty of times.…

— Karrueche Tran