Desperate Quote by Heather Donahue

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

— Jack Kerouac

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

People come to Los Angeles and sell their soul every day. It's sad.

— Fabio Lanzoni

The best people in the world are in LA.

— Anthony Evans

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

— Joseph Barbera

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can…

— Scarlett Johansson

You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or…

— Matthew Specktor

I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that…

— Matthew Specktor

Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts…

— Dakota Johnson

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away.

— Brooke Fraser

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

— Debi Mazar