Quotes About Los Angeles

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los Angeles. There's 'Laguna Beach.'

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.

I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.

I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

Panama is very close to all the points, six hours from Los Angeles, four hours from New York, 10 hours over to Europe. And I can live on a beach. I just ended up there and I liked it.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

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

Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it, and he took me to Leimert Park. At that time, it was the artistic hub of L.A., and it was right in South Central. The first concert I went to, I saw Pharoah Sanders at the World Stage club there, which only holds, like, 30 people.

Only if you're from L.A. do you know Elysian Park.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.