logo

Quotes About Los Angeles

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
~ John Hurt
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
~ Ryan Tedder
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
~ Beverly Cleary
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
~ Rita Wilson
Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
~ Ville Valo
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
~ Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories
My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.
~ Dom Kennedy
After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!
~ Megan Lee
vinyl n. vegetarian leather Drew Bernstein, the Los Angeles clothes designer, sells dresses made of "vegetarian leather.
~ William D. Lutz
L.A. was the John Wayne Gacy of cities, smothering its children with a toxic beach towel of poisoned air, mindless growth, and bad values.
~ William Finnegan
Christian, D. (2004). Maps of time: An introduction to big history. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
~ David Christian
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
~ David Hockney
When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."
~ Hamilton Leithauser
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.
~ Diablo Cody
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.
~ Moby
I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.
~ Nathan Fillion
I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
~ Joe Torre
I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.
~ Chrissy Metz
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.
~ James Ellroy
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
~ Milton Berle
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
~ James Ellroy
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.
~ Rex Reed
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
~ Philip Gourevitch
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
~ Rachel Kushner